Re: [RESEND PATCH] slub: fix high order page allocation problem with __GFP_NOFAIL

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> SLUB already try to allocate high order page with clearing __GFP_NOFAIL.
> But, when allocating shadow page for kmemcheck, it missed clearing
> the flag. This trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() reported by Christian Casteyde.
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65991
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/3/764
> 
> This patch fix this situation by using same allocation flag as original
> allocation.
> 
> Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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