slob: do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in kmem_cache_create()
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:54:16 +0000 (13:54 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:27:06 +0000 (16:27 -0800)
The kmem_cache_create() function in the slob allocator passes the SLAB
flags as GFP flags to the slob_alloc() function.  The patch changes this
call to pass GFP_KERNEL as the other allocators seem to do.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slob.c

index cb675d1267914dc263100b9c4a9ea5eb20fefa48..bf7e8fc3aed806542e44cc7b1d222d9e2b56dc3a 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
        struct kmem_cache *c;
 
        c = slob_alloc(sizeof(struct kmem_cache),
-               flags, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, -1);
+               GFP_KERNEL, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, -1);
 
        if (c) {
                c->name = name;