On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 09:54:06AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> 
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > But I'll apply it anyway, because it looks "obviously correct" from the 
> > standpoint that the _other_??slob user already clears the end result 
> > explicitly later on, and we simply should never pass down __GFP_ZERO to 
> > the actual page allocator.
> 
> Actually, I take that back. The other slob users are different. They share 
> pages, this codepath does not.
> 
> So I think a more proper solution would be:
>  (a) Something like this patch (which includes my previous mm/slub.c 
>      change)
>  (b) don't warn about atomic GFP_ZERO's - unless they have GFP_HIGHMEM set 
>      *too*.

But what about:

(c) stop passing GFP_ZERO to kmalloc allocators
    stop fiddling with flags inside allocators
    remove ugly if (unlikely(gfp & GFP_ZERO)) from kmalloc allocators
    make kzalloc and kcalloc non-inline functions that do the memset

That should:

- make both kmalloc and kzalloc/kcalloc faster (one less branch)
- reduce kernel size

GFP_ZERO is a bit of an abuse here, given that we don't even intend to
pass it to the underlying "GFP".

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