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* 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
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
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
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
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
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
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:
>
> 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
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
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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