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

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Message-Id: <1228939101.3726.136.camel@calx>
Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:58:21 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in slob
	kmem_cache_create

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 17:36 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> 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>

Good catch.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

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