Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946460AbWJSUie (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:38:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946475AbWJSUie (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:38:34 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:41856 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946460AbWJSUic (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:38:32 -0400 Subject: Re: kernel BUG in __cache_alloc_node at linux-2.6.git/mm/slab.c:3177! From: Will Schmidt Reply-To: will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Paul Mackerras , akpm@osdl.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: 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> <17717.50596.248553.816155@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <17718.39522.456361.987639@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <17719.1849.245776.4501@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:38:24 -0500 Message-Id: <1161290304.8946.54.camel@farscape> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1066 Lines: 33 On Thu, 2006-19-10 at 09:16 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Get cache descritor > > Attempt to allocate the first descriptor for the first cache. > > > __cache_alloc > > Attempt to allocate from the caches of node 0 (which are empty on > bootstrap). We try to replenish the caches of node 0 which should have > succeeded. I guess that this failed due to no pages available on > node 0. This should not happen! Is there a hook where we can see what/where the memory is going? Does it seem reasonable for all of the memory that is in node 0 to be consumed? Mine appears to have... Node 0 MemTotal: 229376 kB Node 0 MemFree: 0 kB Node 0 MemUsed: 229376 kB And one of Paul's earlier notes mentioned about a gig of ram on node0; -Will - 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/