[patch 1/9] GFP_ZERO fix

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

__GFP_ZERO really shouldn't tempt fate.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/gfp.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/gfp.h	2005-04-12 22:05:49.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/gfp.h	2005-04-12 22:26:10.000000000 +1000
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 
 /* if you forget to add the bitmask here kernel will crash, period */
 #define GFP_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS| \
-			__GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT| \
-			__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP)
+			__GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL| \
+			__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO)
 
 #define GFP_ATOMIC	(__GFP_HIGH)
 #define GFP_NOIO	(__GFP_WAIT)

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