Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752675AbYAWIkH (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:40:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751071AbYAWIjz (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:39:55 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:55420 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750994AbYAWIjy (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:39:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:40:16 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Christoph Lameter , Mel Gorman , 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 Message-ID: <20080123084016.GA17911@aepfle.de> 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> <84144f020801230019i5ac6c8b1lfa5364672988b0c4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84144f020801230019i5ac6c8b1lfa5364672988b0c4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 19 On Wed, Jan 23, Pekka Enberg wrote: > 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? Does not help. -- 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/