Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:32:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
       Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@artcom.pl>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> __GFP_ZERO is cleared in one place when new_slab() calls allocate_slab(). 

You're so full of crap that it's not even funny.

The fact that one path does it correct makes it ok to do it wrong in 
another path?

> The fallback code in 2.6.25 will go away in 2.6.26.

And the fact that 2.5.26 may fix it differently makes it ok to be buggy in 
2.6.25?

You are not making any sense what-so-ever.

		Linus
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