linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803281138130.17805@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:38:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@...com.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

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.

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