Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422933AbWJPXhi (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:37:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750814AbWJPXhi (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:37:38 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:43669 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750805AbWJPXhh (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:37:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:37:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Will Schmidt cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel BUG in __cache_alloc_node at linux-2.6.git/mm/slab.c:3177! In-Reply-To: <1161031821.31903.28.camel@farscape> Message-ID: References: <1160764895.11239.14.camel@farscape> <1160769226.11239.22.camel@farscape> <1160773040.11239.28.camel@farscape> <1161026409.31903.15.camel@farscape> <1161031821.31903.28.camel@farscape> 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: 1398 Lines: 32 On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Will Schmidt wrote: > This is output from 2.6.18-rc2. MemFree, MemTotal, MemUsed still > wrong. Node0 slab is still zero. I've also attached the numa=debug > boot log from this boot, in case it has any clues that were missing from > the other boot log. It looks as if node 0 is allready full on bootup. The new code in 2.6.19 controls locality in a more strict form in the slab. 2.6.18 and earlier were able to tolerate if a request for a page from the slab allocator for node 0 returns memory on node1 even if node 1 has not been bootstrapped yet. But this resulted in a problem in the slab because the node lists dedicated for node 0 now had memory from node 1 in it (which led to latency problems since slab code subsequently assumes that node local memory is very fast, which with corrupted per node lists is no longer true.). You must bootstrap on a node that has memory available. If you would bootstrap the slab on node 1 that would work. > Node 0 MemTotal: 229376 kB > Node 0 MemUsed: 229376 kB ^^^^^ This node should not be full!!! Increase memory on node 0 so that the slab can bootstrap. - 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/