is there some reason there are so many calls of the form memset(addr, 0, PAGE_SIZE)
rather than the apparently equivalent invocation of clear_page(addr) the majority of architectures appear to define the clear_page() macro in their include/<arch>/page.h header file, but not entirely identically, and in some cases that definition is conditional, as with i386: ============================================================= #ifdef CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW ... #define clear_page(page) mmx_clear_page((void *)(page)) ... #else ... #define clear_page(page) memset((void *)(page), 0, PAGE_SIZE) ... #endif ============================================================ should it perhaps be part of the CodingStyle doc to use the clear_page() macro rather than an explicit call to memset()? (and should all architectures be required to define that macro?) rday - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/