Re: [PATCH,RFC] Add __GFP_ZERO to GFP_LEVEL_MASK

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:25:16 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:

> There is a very helpful comment in <linux/gfp.h>:
> 
>   /* if you forget to add the bitmask here kernel will crash, period */
> 
> Well, my kernel has been crashing (period) at the BUG() in cache_grow();
> the offending flag is __GFP_ZERO.  I think it needs to be in
> GFP_LEVEL_MASK.  Anybody know a good reason why it's not there now?
> 

It would be a bit odd to pass __GFP_ZERO into the slab allocator.  Slab
doesn't need that hint: it has its own ways of initialising the memory.

What is the callsite?

Thanks.

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