Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759979Ab0HEIih (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 04:38:37 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([74.125.121.35]:47635 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759845Ab0HEIie (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 04:38:34 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id: references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-system-of-record; b=FtDn6JkKuDhJQhO6QepJdgWxUZyvEZ7+hZkmoNTMTrZvBBnc1S2BEqwfx79B4C0PC rz4qQnAstE3esVP/iM0ww== Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 01:38:15 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Christoph Lameter cc: Pekka Enberg , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [S+Q3 00/23] SLUB: The Unified slab allocator (V3) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20100804024514.139976032@linux.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 26 On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > This insta-reboots on my netperf benchmarking servers (but works with > > numa=off), so I'll have to wait until I can hook up a serial before > > benchmarking this series. > > There are potential issues with > > 1. The size of per cpu reservation on bootup and the new percpu code that > allows allocations for per cpu areas during bootup. Sometime I wonder if I > should just go back to static allocs for that. > > 2. The topology information provided by the machine for the cache setup. > > 3. My code of course. > I bisected this to patch 8 but still don't have a bootlog. I'm assuming in the meantime that something is kmallocing DMA memory on this machine prior to kmem_cache_init_late() and get_slab() is returning a NULL pointer. -- 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/