On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:25:16 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> 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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