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authorJan Beulich2010-10-26 23:22:27 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds2010-10-27 01:52:13 +0200
commit3ecb01df3261d3b1f02ccfcf8384e2a255d2a1d0 (patch)
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parentmodules: no need to align .modinfo strings (diff)
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use clear_page()/copy_page() in favor of memset()/memcpy() on whole pages
After all that's what they are intended for. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kexec.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index c0613f7d6730..b55045bc7563 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ static int kimage_load_normal_segment(struct kimage *image,
ptr = kmap(page);
/* Start with a clear page */
- memset(ptr, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+ clear_page(ptr);
ptr += maddr & ~PAGE_MASK;
mchunk = PAGE_SIZE - (maddr & ~PAGE_MASK);
if (mchunk > mbytes)