Latest mmotm rarely boots if SLUB is enabled: earlyprintk=vga shows it crashing with various backtraces. The memset has now been removed from kmem_cache_open(), so kmem_cache_init() needs to zero its page. This gets SLUB booting reliably again. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- mmotm/mm/slub.c 2012-09-07 12:39:38.136019730 -0700 +++ fixed/mm/slub.c 2012-09-08 19:37:38.608993123 -0700 @@ -3712,7 +3712,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void) /* Allocate two kmem_caches from the page allocator */ kmalloc_size = ALIGN(kmem_size, cache_line_size()); order = get_order(2 * kmalloc_size); - kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT, order); + kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_ZERO, order); /* * Must first have the slab cache available for the allocations of the -- 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>