On 2017-08-08 09:15, David Laight wrote:
From: Pasha Tatashin
Sent: 08 August 2017 12:49
Thank you for looking at this change. What you described was in my
previous iterations of this project.
See for example here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/5/369
I was asked to remove that flag, and only
From: Pasha Tatashin
> Sent: 08 August 2017 12:49
> Thank you for looking at this change. What you described was in my
> previous iterations of this project.
>
> See for example here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/5/369
>
> I was asked to remove that flag, and only zero memory in place when
>
Hi Will,
> Damn, I actually prefer the flag :)
>
> But actually, if you look at our implementation of vmemmap_populate,
then we
> have our own version of vmemmap_populate_basepages that terminates at the
> pmd level anyway if ARM64_SWAPPER_USES_SECTION_MAPS. If there's
resistance
> to do
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 07:49:22AM -0400, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
> Thank you for looking at this change. What you described was in my previous
> iterations of this project.
>
> See for example here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/5/369
>
> I was asked to remove that flag, and only
Hi Will,
Thank you for looking at this change. What you described was in my
previous iterations of this project.
See for example here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/5/369
I was asked to remove that flag, and only zero memory in place when
needed. Overall the current approach is better
On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 04:38:45PM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> To optimize the performance of struct page initialization,
> vmemmap_populate() will no longer zero memory.
>
> We must explicitly zero the memory that is allocated by vmemmap_populate()
> for kasan, as this memory does not go
