Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751370AbVIZTby (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:31:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751328AbVIZTby (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:31:54 -0400 Received: from calsoftinc.com ([64.62.215.98]:39110 "HELO calsoftinc.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751370AbVIZTbx (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:31:53 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1-git-now still dying in mm/slab - this time line 1849 From: Alok Kataria To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Petr Vandrovec , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1127763269.2893.44.camel@alok.intranet.calsoftinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:04:30 +0530 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1203 Lines: 32 On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 23:30, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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? Yes it does work at my end, i am still not able to reproduce the BUG so don't know if we really fix that BUG. > > 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. Yep, that will help, if it still BUG's the information that you provided with verify_entry will be great. Thanks & Regards, Alok - 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/