From: Pavel Tatashin > Sent: 05 October 2017 22:11 > vmemmap_alloc_block() will no longer zero the block, so zero memory > at its call sites for everything except struct pages. Struct page memory > is zero'd by struct page initialization.
It seems dangerous to change an allocator to stop zeroing memory.
It is probably saver to add a new function that doesn't zero
the memory and use that is the places where you don't want it
to be zeroed.
David
