Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 5/9] Add XBRLE to ram_save_block and ram_save_live

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Orit Wasserman <address@hidden> wrote:
> +    /* XOR encoding */
> +    xor_buf = (uint8_t *) g_malloc0(TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);

Is this an old version of the code?  I remember pointing out all the
useless zeroing in a previous revision.  If the next line is going to
memcpy or overwrite the entire buffer, please don't zero it first -
especially when the buffer isn't just a small struct.

Stefan