On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > Doesn't boot (SLUB + debug options) Subject: slub: use kmem_cache_zalloc to zero kmalloc cache Memory for kmem_cache needs to be zeroed in slub after we moved the allocation into slab_commmon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Index: linux/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/slub.c 2012-08-21 15:54:42.298087150 -0500 +++ linux/mm/slub.c 2012-08-21 15:55:16.386555367 -0500 @@ -3259,7 +3259,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *__init create_ { struct kmem_cache *s; - s = kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache, GFP_NOWAIT); + s = kmem_cache_zalloc(kmem_cache, GFP_NOWAIT); /* * This function is called with IRQs disabled during early-boot on -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>