* Dumb question for today
@ 2006-11-02 23:48 Stephen Rothwell
2006-11-03 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-03 14:33 ` Jonathan Corbet
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From: Stephen Rothwell @ 2006-11-02 23:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
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Does vmalloc() zero the memory it allocates?
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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* Re: Dumb question for today
2006-11-02 23:48 Dumb question for today Stephen Rothwell
@ 2006-11-03 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-03 4:03 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-11-03 14:33 ` Jonathan Corbet
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2006-11-03 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Rothwell; +Cc: LKML
Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Does vmalloc() zero the memory it allocates?
Nope.
Jeff
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* Re: Dumb question for today
2006-11-03 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
@ 2006-11-03 4:03 ` Stephen Rothwell
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From: Stephen Rothwell @ 2006-11-03 4:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff Garzik; +Cc: LKML
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On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:09:39 -0500 Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
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> Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Does vmalloc() zero the memory it allocates?
>
> Nope.
Thanks. See "Fix sys_move_pages when a NULL node list is passed."
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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* Re: Dumb question for today
2006-11-02 23:48 Dumb question for today Stephen Rothwell
2006-11-03 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
@ 2006-11-03 14:33 ` Jonathan Corbet
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From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2006-11-03 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Rothwell; +Cc: linux-kernel
> Does vmalloc() zero the memory it allocates?
Nope, but vmalloc_user() will.
jon
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