Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:21:20 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christopher Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor |
| |
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()?
| |