Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753644AbYAWITq (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:19:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750942AbYAWITi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:19:38 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.190]:45490 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750789AbYAWITh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:19:37 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=YqPZApBzCw4T+MkcEdrORLnWEIkTPgYLc2xyxpVwxI7zfEo5aIEWOjv/SIMjLRrBPRayLzm8KQYbS6EtR+RlxlhtvVsmCqSNQgRaegNSpCAuGI1C2N6UKE5vZxnvlt7jswdmhXabzY0pBDCIf4itwGwEWgJ5pAyJdZDPk+kXszw= Message-ID: <84144f020801230019i5ac6c8b1lfa5364672988b0c4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:19:33 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Christoph Lameter" Subject: Re: crash in kmem_cache_init 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 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080118225713.GA31128@aepfle.de> <20080122195448.GA15567@csn.ul.ie> <20080122212654.GB15567@csn.ul.ie> <20080122225046.GA866@csn.ul.ie> <47967560.8080101@cs.helsinki.fi> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 36ca8367a9f0af10 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 758 Lines: 17 Hi Christoph, On Jan 23, 2008 1:18 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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.... Sure, but I was referring to the scenario where current node _has_ pages available but no ->nodelists. Olaf, did you try it? Pekka -- 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/