Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756006AbYHRT57 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:57:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754499AbYHRT5r (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:57:47 -0400 Received: from gir.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.77]:56345 "EHLO gir.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754111AbYHRT5q (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:57:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:57:43 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Adam Litke Cc: linux-mm , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , nacc , apw , agl Subject: Re: [BUG] __GFP_THISNODE is not always honored Message-ID: <20080818195743.GB22601@csn.ul.ie> References: <1218837685.12953.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080818105918.GD32113@csn.ul.ie> <1219083412.29323.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1219083412.29323.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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: 718 Lines: 15 On (18/08/08 13:16), Adam Litke didst pronounce: > > mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 0 zone 0 pfns 32768 -> 278528 > mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 1 zone 0 pfns 0 -> 524288 This might be the problem here. This machine has overlapping nodes which is a fairly rare situation. I think it's possible the page linkages for node 0 are getting overwritten with their node 1 equivalents. If this is happening, it would lead to some oddness. -- 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/