Re: [PATCH] Do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in slobkmem_cache_create

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

[Matt Mackall - Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:57:50PM -0600]
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| I think that's fine. Notice that this is not the allocation of an
| object, but the allocation of a cache descriptor. We save the flags
| inside the descriptor so that when the user calls kmem_cache_alloc, we
| can pass them along to slob_alloc, where GFP_ZERO can take effect.
| 
| So, if we're comfortable with the idea that we can only create caches in
| 'normal' contexts, then I think the patch is fine.
| 
| -- 
| Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
| 

Yes Matt, somehow missed that.

		- Cyrill -
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