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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Cc:        Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_kern.c
Message-ID:  <20020619192840.D54940-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020619173509.B19831@locore.ca>

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote:

> Apparently, On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:47:18PM -0700,
> 	Jeff Roberson said words to the effect of;
>
> > jeff        2002/06/19 13:47:18 PDT
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/vm               vm_kern.c
> >   Log:
> >   Teach kmem_malloc about M_ZERO.
>
> Does this assume that the pages actually are zero?  vm_page_alloc uses
> VM_ALLOC_ZERO as a hint, but it may return a garbage filled page if there
> aren't any zeroed ones; the caller still has to check PG_ZERO.
>
> >
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.79      +10 -4     src/sys/vm/vm_kern.c
>

Good catch. Nothing depended on it yet, but I'll add that in just a
moment.


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