[PATCH] Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 -- hvsi console driver registration failure

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Better, we should be emitting loud warnigns which then disable themselves
> and then succeeding the allocation so that people can proceed with their
> kernel testing.
> 
> When all the loud-warning sites have been fixed, we can take that code out
> again.
> 
> The present situation is maximally tester-hostile.
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SLUB: Allocate smallest object size if the user asks for 0 bytes.

Makes SLUB behave like SLAB in this area to avoid issues....

Throw a stack dump to alert people.

At some point the behavior should be switched back. NULL is no
memory as far as I can tell and if the use asked for 0 bytes then
he need to get no memory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter at sgi.com>

---
 include/linux/slub_def.h |    8 ++++++--
 mm/slub.c                |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: slub/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- slub.orig/mm/slub.c	2007-05-04 14:17:22.000000000 -0700
+++ slub/mm/slub.c	2007-05-04 14:19:36.000000000 -0700
@@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *get_slab(size_
 {
 	int index = kmalloc_index(size);
 
-	if (!size)
+	if (!index)
 		return NULL;
 
 	/* Allocation too large? */
Index: slub/include/linux/slub_def.h
===================================================================
--- slub.orig/include/linux/slub_def.h	2007-05-04 14:13:40.000000000 -0700
+++ slub/include/linux/slub_def.h	2007-05-04 14:18:25.000000000 -0700
@@ -81,8 +81,12 @@ extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[
  */
 static inline int kmalloc_index(int size)
 {
-	if (size == 0)
-		return 0;
+	/*
+	 * We should return 0 if size == 0 but we use the smallest object
+	 * here for SLAB legacy reasons.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON(size == 0);
+
 	if (size > 64 && size <= 96)
 		return 1;
 	if (size > 128 && size <= 192)