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DateFri, 28 Mar 2008 19:15:02 +0200
From"Pekka Enberg" <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24
Hi Christoph,

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>  And the fact is, passing in GFP_ZERO from the SLUB code is a bug
>  regardless, because it unnecessarily does the dual memset().

We clear GFP_ZERO in new_slab() so the normal kmalloc()/kzalloc() path
should be fine but don't do it for kmalloc_large() nor
kmalloc_large_node(). Is that the bug here?
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