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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> this would make the following line in slob_alloc
>
> 	...
> 	if (unlikely((gfp & __GFP_ZERO) && b))
> 		memset(b, 0, size);
>  	...
>
> useless. Not sure if it will be good :)

No. GFP_ZERO is set when kmalloc etc is called. Its not set on
kmem_cache_create.

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