Commit e72e9c23 authored Mar 27, 2008 by Linus Torvalds

Revert "SLUB: remove useless masking of GFP_ZERO"



This reverts commit 3811dbf6.

The masking was not at all useless, and it was sensible.  We handle
GFP_ZERO in the caller, and passing it down to any page allocator logic
is buggy and wrong.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 8536bbaf

mm/slub.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1470,6 +1470,9 @@ static void __slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache s,
		void **object;
		struct page *new;

		/* We handle __GFP_ZERO in the caller */
		gfpflags &= ~__GFP_ZERO;

		if (!c->page)
		goto new_slab;

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