Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932449AbVIZSA3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:00:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932451AbVIZSA3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:00:29 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:19101 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932449AbVIZSA2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:00:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:00:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Alok Kataria cc: Petr Vandrovec , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1-git-now still dying in mm/slab - this time line 1849 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 23 On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Alok Kataria wrote: > As pointed by Christoph, In kmalloc_node we are cheking if, the allocation is > for the > same node when interrupts are "on", this may lead to an allocation on another > node than intended. > This patch just shifts the check for the current node in __cache_alloc_node > when interrupts > are disabled. Alokk, could you verify that this patch works? Petr, could you check that this patch fixes your issue? I am a bit skeptical. I do not think we have found the real problem yet. We need to have some way to reproduce the problem if it still persists after applying Alokk's patch. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/