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

Christoph Lameter
2008-12-10T20:12:19Z

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.