On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c > index 9c21725..f2682ee 100644 > --- a/mm/slab_common.c > +++ b/mm/slab_common.c > @@ -107,6 +107,15 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align > if (!kmem_cache_sanity_check(name, size) == 0) > goto out_locked; > > + /* > + * Some allocators will constraint the set of valid flags to a subset > + * of all flags. We expect them to define CACHE_CREATE_MASK in this > + * case, and we'll just provide them with a sanitized version of the > + * passed flags. > + */ > +#ifdef CACHE_CREATE_MASK > + flags &= ~CACHE_CREATE_MASK; > +#endif > > s = __kmem_cache_alias(name, size, align, flags, ctor); > if (s) flags &= CACHE_CREATE_MASK After that's done: Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for working through this. -- 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>