On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, 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()? The ctor's are run at that point from setup_object() so it makes sense.
