Re: [PATCH] perf, tools, bench: Fix memcpy benchmark for large sizes

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 10:20:24 EST


> > @@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ static void alloc_mem(void **dst, void **src, size_t length)
> > *src = zalloc(length);
> > if (!src)
> > die("memory allocation failed - maybe length is too large?\n");
> > + /* Make sure to always replace the zero pages even if MMAP_THRESH is crossed */
> > + memset(src, 0, length);
>
> It should be memset(*src, 0, length) instead.

Thanks for catching. I wonder why it fixed the problem for me.

> There's fix for wrong memory allocation fail check in v3.11-rc1.

Doubt it matters.

-Andi

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