Daniel recently spotted that __GFP_ZERO is not (and has never been) part of GFP_LEVEL_MASK. I could not find a reason for this in the original patch: 3977971c7f09ce08ed1b8d7a67b2098eb732e4cd in the -bk tree.
This of course is in stark contradiction with the comment accompanying GFP_LEVEL_MASK. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/gfp.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-2/include/linux/gfp.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-2.orig/include/linux/gfp.h +++ linux-2.6-2/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; /* if you forget to add the bitmask here kernel will crash, period */ #define GFP_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS| \ __GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT| \ - __GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP| \ + __GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO \ __GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_THISNODE| \ __GFP_MOVABLE) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/