Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751425AbWIUSIW (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:08:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751426AbWIUSIW (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:08:22 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:29188 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751425AbWIUSIV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:08:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4512D4FB.5000803@shadowen.org> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:07:55 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1 -- ppc64 crash in slab_node ?? References: <20060919012848.4482666d.akpm@osdl.org> <45128F94.1080502@shadowen.org> <20060921102823.628a2a74.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 19 Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> I guess the below will fix it. But Christoph's machine would have oopsed >> too, if it had called fallback_alloc() this early. So presumably it did >> not. But yours does. I wonder why? > > Hmmm... Fallback during boot? Any zones that have no ZONE_NORMAL memory? I think there is some kind of memory layout issue with the machine (see my reply to akpm), which I'll look into tommorrow. But as the machine is tripping this bug, I'll throw this patch at it also. -apw - 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/