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Date:   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:10:20 -0500 (CDT)
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> __GFP_ZERO requests that the object be initialised to all-zeroes,
> while the purpose of a constructor is to initialise an object to a
> particular pattern.  We cannot do both.  Add a warning to catch any
> users who mistakenly pass a __GFP_ZERO flag when allocating a slab with
> a constructor.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>