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Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 15:21:55 +0300
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Michael Tokarev" <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: Re: [KJ PATCH] Replacing memset(<addr>,0,PAGE_SIZE) with clear_page() in kernel/kexec.c
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Shani Moideen wrote:
> >                 ptr = kmap(page);
> > -               memset(ptr, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
> > +               clear_page(ptr);

On 5/8/07, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> I wonder if it's worth to invent kzmap() or something like that... ;)

I am counting 59 kmap + memset pairs in the kernel, so perhaps it is
worth it to reduce kernel text size.
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