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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] minios: clear FB content

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] minios: clear FB content
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 15:34:26 +0100
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minios: clear FB content since _xmalloc may return non-zeroed memory (in
debug mode, notably).

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 2223ed7635d4 extras/mini-os/kernel.c
--- a/extras/mini-os/kernel.c   Thu May 08 13:59:03 2008 +0100
+++ b/extras/mini-os/kernel.c   Thu May 08 15:34:59 2008 +0100
@@ -302,13 +302,10 @@
 
     memsize = n * PAGE_SIZE;
     fb = _xmalloc(memsize, PAGE_SIZE);
+    memset(fb, 0, memsize);
     mfns = xmalloc_array(unsigned long, n);
-    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
-        /* trigger CoW */
-        ((char *) fb) [i * PAGE_SIZE] = 0;
-        barrier();
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
         mfns[i] = virtual_to_mfn((char *) fb + i * PAGE_SIZE);
-    }
     fb_dev = init_fbfront(NULL, mfns, WIDTH, HEIGHT, DEPTH, line_length, n);
     xfree(mfns);
     if (!fb_dev) {

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