avoid memset in kalloc/kfree to get more reasonable mtrace orderings

b77567ba · Nickolai Zeldovich · 66f20c0e · b77567ba
--- a/kalloc.c
+++ b/kalloc.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ void kminit(void);

 struct kmem kmems[NCPU];
 extern char end[]; // first address after kernel loaded from ELF file
+enum { kalloc_memset = 0 };

 static int kinited __attribute__ ((aligned (CACHELINE)));

@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ kfree_pool(struct kmem *m, char *v)
    panic("kfree");

  // Fill with junk to catch dangling refs.
-  if (kinited)
+  if (kinited && kalloc_memset)
    memset(v, 1, PGSIZE);

  acquire(&m->lock);
@@ -126,7 +127,8 @@ kalloc(void)
 			sizeof("kalloc"),
 			RET_EIP());

-  memset(r, 2, PGSIZE);
+  if (kalloc_memset)
+    memset(r, 2, PGSIZE);
  return (char*)r;
 }