On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, JoonSoo Kim wrote:
> > Index: linux-2.6/mm/slab_common.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slab_common.c 2012-08-03 13:17:27.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6/mm/slab_common.c 2012-08-03 13:20:48.080876182 -0500
> > @@ -104,19 +104,21 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(con
> > goto out_locked;
> > }
> >
> > - s = __kmem_cache_create(n, size, align, flags, ctor);
> > -
> > + s = kmem_cache_zalloc(kmem_cache, GFP_NOWAIT);
> > if (s) {
>
> Is it necessary that kmem_cache_zalloc() is invoked with GFP_NOWAIT?
> As I understand, before patch, it is called with GFP_KERNEL.
Correct. GFP_NOWAIT would be used in a boot situation. Was doing this
while also working on bootstrap issues. Fixed in next release.
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