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DateSun, 9 Dec 2007 08:58:07 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]
* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> It's a kmap_atomic() debugging patch which I wrote ages ago and whcih 
> Ingo sucked into his tree.  I don't _think_ this warning is present in 
> your tree at all.
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/29/157 is where it starts.
> 
> I had a lenghty back-and-forth with Christoph on this within the past 
> couple of months and I cannot locate the thread and I don't recall 
> what the upshot was and Christoph is still offline.
> 
> Knocking out __GFP_ZERO at the point where the slab allocator(s) call 
> the page allocator seems like a good approach to me.
> 
> But I don't think we need to do anything for 2.6.24..

ok - Rafael, please strike this off the regressions list, there is no 
problem in .24 other than the double memset for some SLOB metadata.

	Ingo


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