Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERO to GFP_LEVEL_MASK

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Jul 24 2007 - 19:00:44 EST


On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I think I'll duck this for now. Otherwise I have a suspicion that I'll
> be the first person to run it and I'm too old for such excitement.

I always had the suspicion that you have some magical script
which will immediately tell you that a patch is not working ;-)

Works fine on x86_64 (on top of the ctor cleanup patchset) and passes the
kernel build test but then there may be creatively designed drivers and
such that pass these flags to the slab allocators which will now BUG.
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