Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757302AbYAVXTD (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:19:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754128AbYAVXSy (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:18:54 -0500 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:48177 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753788AbYAVXSx (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:18:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:18:52 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Pekka Enberg cc: Mel Gorman , Olaf Hering , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , hanth Aravamudan , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, Linux MM , akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: crash in kmem_cache_init In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20080117211511.GA25320@aepfle.de> <20080118213011.GC10491@csn.ul.ie> <20080118225713.GA31128@aepfle.de> <20080122195448.GA15567@csn.ul.ie> <20080122212654.GB15567@csn.ul.ie> <20080122225046.GA866@csn.ul.ie> <47967560.8080101@cs.helsinki.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 16 On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > But I doubt that this is it. The fallback logic was added later and it > worked fine. My patch is useless (fascinating history of the changelog there through). fallback_alloc calls kmem_getpages without GFP_THISNODE. This means that alloc_pages_node() will try to allocate on the current node but fallback to neighboring node if nothing is there.... -- 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/