[PATCH mmotm] slub: zero page to fix boot crashes

[Hugh Dickins]

Latest mmotm rarely boots if SLUB is enabled: earlyprintk=vga shows
it crashing with various backtraces.  The memset has now been removed
from kmem_cache_open(), so kmem_cache_init() needs to zero its page.
This gets SLUB booting reliably again.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/slub.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- mmotm/mm/slub.c	2012-09-07 12:39:38.136019730 -0700
+++ fixed/mm/slub.c	2012-09-08 19:37:38.608993123 -0700
@@ -3712,7 +3712,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
 	/* Allocate two kmem_caches from the page allocator */
 	kmalloc_size = ALIGN(kmem_size, cache_line_size());
 	order = get_order(2 * kmalloc_size);
-	kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT, order);
+	kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_ZERO, order);
 
 	/*
 	 * Must first have the slab cache available for the allocations of the
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