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    mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero · 88fdf75d
    Minchan Kim authored
    Warn if memory-hotplug/boot code doesn't initialize pg_data_t with zero
    when it is allocated.  Arch code and memory hotplug already initiailize
    pg_data_t.  So this warning should never happen.  I select fields randomly
    near the beginning, middle and end of pg_data_t for checking.
    
    This patch isn't for performance but for removing initialization code
    which is necessary to add whenever we adds new field to pg_data_t or zone.
    
    Firstly, Andrew suggested clearing out of pg_data_t in MM core part but
    Tejun doesn't like it because in the future, some archs can initialize
    some fields in arch code and pass them into general MM part so blindly
    clearing it out in mm core part would be very annoying.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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