William Lee Irwin III wrote:

quoted

@@ -1104,6 +1126,7 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(s
                        pcp->low = 0;
                        pcp->high = 32;
                        pcp->batch = 16;
+                       pcp->reserved = 0;
                        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pcp->list);
                }
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->active_list);

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:47:19AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

OK.  But that's been there since 2.5.40-mm2.  Why did it suddenly
bite?

I must have been way too tired or something:

(1) It's embedded in struct zone, hence bootmem allocated, hence
	already zeroed.

(2) The logs still show the show_free_areas() call immediately after
	free_all_bootmem_core() seeing the garbage ->reserved values.

Bill
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