[PATCH 13/21] arch: don't memset(0) memory returned by memblock_alloc()

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Thu Jan 17 01:17:22 AEDT 2019


On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 2:45 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> memblock_alloc() already clears the allocated memory, no point in doing it
> twice.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>

>  arch/m68k/mm/mcfmmu.c       | 1 -

For m68k part:
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>

> --- a/arch/m68k/mm/mcfmmu.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/mm/mcfmmu.c
> @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
>         int i;
>
>         empty_zero_page = (void *) memblock_alloc(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
> -       memset((void *) empty_zero_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
>
>         pg_dir = swapper_pg_dir;
>         memset(swapper_pg_dir, 0, sizeof(swapper_pg_dir));

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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