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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Prezeroing V3 [1/4]: Allow request for zeroed memory
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >
> > This patch introduces __GFP_ZERO as an additional gfp_mask element to allow
> > to request zeroed pages from the page allocator.
> 
> Ok, let's start merging this slowly

One week hence, please.  Things like the no-bitmaps-for-the-buddy-allocator
have been well tested and should go in first.