Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:29:26 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Sage Weil <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] md: avoid use of broken kzalloc mempool |
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On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Andi Kleen wrote: > Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> writes: > > > The kzalloc mempool does not re-zero items that have been used and then > > returned to the pool. Manually zero the allocated multipath_bh instead. > > Why not fix that in mempool instead? That would seem like the right place > to fix such a bug, instead of adding workarounds to all callers.
That was my original proposal, but Andrew suggested it wasn't worth the added complexity for only 2 users (or actually, just 1). See this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=124933189913260&w=2
sage
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