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Subject: Re: bootmem allocator
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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