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Commit c803b3c8 authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: introduce memmap_alloc() to unify memory map allocation

There are several places that allocate memory for the memory map:
alloc_node_mem_map() for FLATMEM, sparse_buffer_init() and
__populate_section_memmap() for SPARSEMEM.

The memory allocated in the FLATMEM case is zeroed and it is never
poisoned, regardless of CONFIG_PAGE_POISON setting.

The memory allocated in the SPARSEMEM cases is not zeroed and it is
implicitly poisoned inside memblock if CONFIG_PAGE_POISON is set.

Introduce memmap_alloc() wrapper for memblock allocators that will be used
for both FLATMEM and SPARSEMEM cases and will makei memory map zeroing and
poisoning consistent for different memory models.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714123739.16493-4-rppt@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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