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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] i386 virtualization - Make ldt a desc struct
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* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
> Several reviewers noticed that initialization and destruction of the
> mm->context is unnecessary, since the entire MM struct is zeroed on
> allocation anyways.

well, on fork it should be just shallow copied rather than zeroed.