Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v3 0/4] Zero allocated pages

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:05:54PM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
> For reproducibility, it is best to zero pages before they are used.
> There are hidden assumptions on memory being zeroed (by BIOS/KVM), which
> might be broken at any given moment. The full argument appears in the
> first patch commit log.
> 
> Following the first patch that zeros the memory, the rest of the
> patch-set removes redundant zeroing do to the additional zeroing.
> 
> This patch-set is only tested on x86.

Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

for all of them please.
> 
> v2->v3:
> * Typos [Alexandru]
> 
> v1->v2:
> * Change alloc_pages() as well
> * Remove redundant page zeroing [Andrew]
> 
> Nadav Amit (4):
>   lib/alloc_page: Zero allocated pages
>   x86: Remove redundant page zeroing
>   lib: Remove redundant page zeroing
>   arm: Remove redundant page zeroing
> 
>  lib/alloc_page.c         |  4 ++++
>  lib/arm/asm/pgtable.h    |  2 --
>  lib/arm/mmu.c            |  1 -
>  lib/arm64/asm/pgtable.h  |  1 -
>  lib/virtio-mmio.c        |  1 -
>  lib/x86/intel-iommu.c    |  5 -----
>  x86/eventinj.c           |  1 -
>  x86/hyperv_connections.c |  4 ----
>  x86/vmx.c                | 10 ----------
>  x86/vmx_tests.c          | 11 -----------
>  10 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>