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>