The constructor for buffer_head slabs was removed recently. We need the constructor in order to insure that slab objects always have a definite state even before we allocated them. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- fs/buffer.c | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 0e5ec37..f4824d1 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -2960,9 +2960,8 @@ static void recalc_bh_state(void) struct buffer_head *alloc_buffer_head(gfp_t gfp_flags) { - struct buffer_head *ret = kmem_cache_zalloc(bh_cachep, gfp_flags); + struct buffer_head *ret = kmem_cache_alloc(bh_cachep, gfp_flags); if (ret) { - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ret->b_assoc_buffers); get_cpu_var(bh_accounting).nr++; recalc_bh_state(); put_cpu_var(bh_accounting); @@ -3003,12 +3002,24 @@ static int buffer_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, return NOTIFY_OK; } +static void +init_buffer_head(void *data, struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long flags) +{ + struct buffer_head * bh = (struct buffer_head *)data; + + memset(bh, 0, sizeof(*bh)); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bh->b_assoc_buffers); +} + void __init buffer_init(void) { int nrpages; - bh_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(buffer_head, - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD); + bh_cachep = kmem_cache_create("buffer_head", + sizeof(struct buffer_head), 0, + (SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC| + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD), + init_buffer_head); /* * Limit the bh occupancy to 10% of ZONE_NORMAL -- 1.5.2.4 -- - 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/