Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757188AbYC1SlQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:41:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751354AbYC1SlB (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:41:01 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:52123 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750906AbYC1SlA (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:41:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:38:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Linus Torvalds cc: Pekka Enberg , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Pawel Staszewski , LKML , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Natalie Protasevich Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200803272353.51901.rjw@sisk.pl> <84144f020803281015s60370d9dpec0913c33004b6c2@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020803281108o178bf62cp48dcd4f43ec59b74@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 532 Lines: 13 On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The code in question is __slab_alloc(). It did *not* clear it correctly > before its uses (__slab_alloc -> kmalloc_large -> __get_free_pages). But why could have __GFP_ZERO there be harmful? Its a non highmem allocation. No kmap needed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/