Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:26:12 +0200
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>,
       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Next April 28: boot failure on PowerPC with SLQB
Message-ID: <20090430112612.GD6900@wotan.suse.de>
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 02:20:29PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 13:18 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > OK thanks. So I think we have 2 problems. One with MAX_ORDER <= 9
> > that is fixed by the previous patch, and another which is probably
> > due to having no memory on node 0 which I will take another look
> > at now.
> > 
> > We can merge the previous patch now, though.
> 
> Hmm, I'll bet this BUG_ON triggers for Stephen.
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slqb.c b/mm/slqb.c
> index a651843..e4b3859 100644
> --- a/mm/slqb.c
> +++ b/mm/slqb.c
> @@ -1391,6 +1391,7 @@ static noinline void *__slab_alloc_page(struct kmem_cache *s,
>  		struct kmem_cache_node *n;
>  
>  		n = s->node_slab[slqb_page_to_nid(page)];
> +		BUG_ON(!n);
>  		l = &n->list;
>  		page->list = l;

Yes I'm betting it does, but I can't see why it should. CPU0 should
have node_slab allocated for node 1 if node 1 has memory. And
conversely, slqb_page_to_nid(page) should never evaluate to 0 if
node 0 has no memory online.


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