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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:50:50 +0400
From: "Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: bootmem allocator
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>
> >
> > I think it would be a good idea ;) Btw maybe would be better to call
> > memset on the code witch relies on "clear" memory explicitly? So we will
> > clear memory allocated *only* if we really need this.
>
>  Are there any users of bootmem which will allocate a significant amount of
> memory and don't need it zeroed?
>
>         -hpa
>

Actually, I don't know without reading the code... will take a look
today evening
(have no access to sources in my office).