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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:21:20AM -0500, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > __GFP_ZERO requests that the object be initialised to all-zeroes,
> > while the purpose of a constructor is to initialise an object to a
> > particular pattern. We cannot do both. Add a warning to catch any
> > users who mistakenly pass a __GFP_ZERO flag when allocating a slab with
> > a constructor.
>
> Can we move this check out of the critical paths and check for
> a ctor and GFP_ZERO when calling the page allocator? F.e. in
> allocate_slab()?

Are you willing to have this kind of bug go uncaught for a while?
In this specific case, __GFP_ZERO was only being passed on a few of the
calls to kmem_cache_alloc. So we'd happily trash the constructed object
any time we didn't allocate a page.

I appreciate it's a tradeoff, and we don't want to clutter the critical
path unnecessarily.

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