Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:36:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
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       hanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>,
       KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
       Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is
 running on a memoryless node
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> Furthermore, don't let kmem_getpages() call alloc_pages_node() if nodeid passed
> to it is -1 as the latter will always translate that to numa_node_id() which
> might not have ->nodelist that caused the invocation of fallback_alloc() in the
> first place (for example, during bootstrap).

kmem_getpages is called without GFP_THISNODE. This 
alloc_pages_node(numa_node_id(), ...) will fall back to the next node with 
memory.

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