Re: [uClinux-dev] [PATCH] NOMMU: fix malloc performance by addinguninitialized flag

[Robin Getz]

On Tue 13 Oct 2009 03:44, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> From: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The no-mmu code currently clears all anonymous mmap-ed memory.  While this
> is what we want in the default case, all memory allocation from userspace
> under no-mmu has to go through this interface, including malloc() which is
> allowed to return uninitialized memory.  This can easily be a significant
> performance slow down.  So for constrained embedded systems were security
> is irrelevant, allow people to avoid unnecessarily clearing memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Should be rgetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- rgetz@xxxxxxxxxx does not exist and will bounce.

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