mm/sparse: consistently do not zero memmap
sparsemem without VMEMMAP has two allocation paths to allocate the memory needed for its memmap (done in sparse_mem_map_populate()). In one allocation path (sparse_buffer_alloc() succeeds), the memory is not zeroed (since it was previously allocated with memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw()). In the other allocation path (sparse_buffer_alloc() fails and sparse_mem_map_populate() falls back to memblock_alloc_try_nid()), the memory is zeroed. AFAICS this difference does not appear to be on purpose. If the code is supposed to work with non-initialized memory (__init_single_page() takes care of zeroing the struct pages which are actually used), we should consistently not zero the memory, to avoid masking bugs. ( I noticed this because on my ARM64 platform, with 1 GiB of memory the first [and only] section is allocated from the zeroing path while with 2 GiB of memory the first 1 GiB section is allocated from the non-zeroing path. ) Michal: "the main user visible problem is a memory wastage. The overal amount of memory should be small. I wouldn't call it stable material." Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191030131122.8256-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com Signed-off-by:Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> Acked-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by:
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by:
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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