linux-kernel - [PATCH] Do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in slob kmem_cache

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Message-ID: <20081210173632.19697.67688.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:36:33 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in slob kmem_cache_create

It looks like the kmem_cache_create() function in the slob allocator
passes the SLAB flags as GFP flags to the slob_alloc() function. The
patch changes this call to pass GFP_KERNEL as the other allocators seem
to do.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
---
 mm/slob.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index ff5a98d..dce9258 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
 	struct kmem_cache *c;
 
 	c = slob_alloc(sizeof(struct kmem_cache),
-		flags, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, -1);
+		GFP_KERNEL, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, -1);
 
 	if (c) {
 		c->name = name;

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