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Message-ID: <84144f020712090033q635b282at2942e3a9eb52eba6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:33:11 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Matt Mackall" <mpm@...enic.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]

Hi Linus,

On Dec 8, 2007 7:54 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
> index ee2ef8a..773a7aa 100644
> --- a/mm/slob.c
> +++ b/mm/slob.c
> @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align, int node)
>
>         /* Not enough space: must allocate a new page */
>         if (!b) {
> -               b = slob_new_page(gfp, 0, node);
> +               b = slob_new_page(gfp & ~__GFP_ZERO, 0, node);
>                 if (!b)
>                         return 0;
>                 sp = (struct slob_page *)virt_to_page(b);
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index b9f37cb..9c1d9f3 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1468,6 +1468,9 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s,
>         void **object;
>         struct page *new;
>
> +       /* We handle __GFP_ZERO in the caller */
> +       gfpflags &= ~__GFP_ZERO;
> +
>         if (!c->page)
>                 goto new_slab;

In case you didn't already merge this:

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
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