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Subject: why does "mem auto-init: clearing system memory may take some
 time..." takes about 14 sec under 5.4.17 but only few msec under 5.5.1?
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I do wonder (and I'm surprised) about increased boot speed according to dm=
esg for thi9s hardend Gentoo Linux system:
Linux mr-fox 5.5.1 #1 SMP Sat Feb 1 18:25:21 CET 2020 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon=
(R) CPU E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Under 5.4.17 I do have usually 14 sec to wait:

[    0.497171] mem auto-init: stack:byref_all, heap alloc:on, heap free:on
[    0.497171] mem auto-init: clearing system memory may take some time...
[    0.501549] Calgary: detecting Calgary via BIOS EBDA area
[    0.501550] Calgary: Unable to locate Rio Grande table in EBDA - bailin=
g!
[   14.083235] Memory: 131812972K/134101088K available (12291K kernel code=
, 1400K rwdata, 1912K rodata, 1272K init, 2040K bss, 2288116K reserved, 0K=
 cma-reserved)
[   14.083342] SLUB: HWalign=3D64, Order=3D0-3, MinObjects=3D0, CPUs=3D12,=
 Nodes=3D1
[   14.083350] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
[   14.083403] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[   14.083404] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is =
25 jiffies.
[   14.083414] NR_IRQS: 4352, nr_irqs: 928, preallocated irqs: 16

but with 5.5.1 there's no wait?:

[    0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:byref_all, heap alloc:on, heap free:on
[    0.000000] mem auto-init: clearing system memory may take some time...
[    0.000000] Memory: 131812876K/134101088K available (12291K kernel code=
, 1412K rwdata, 1936K rodata, 1260K init, 2012K bss, 2288212K reserved, 0K=
 cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=3D64, Order=3D0-3, MinObjects=3D0, CPUs=3D12,=
 Nodes=3D1
[    0.000000] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
[    0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is =
25 jiffies.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 4352, nr_irqs: 928, preallocated irqs: 16
[    0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x4a8/0x6=
59 with crng_init=3D0

Do I miss something? (The kernel config was derived via "make oldconfig").

=2D-
Toralf