Re: SLUB ia64 linux-next crash bisected to 756dee75

[Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>]

* Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Alex Chiang wrote:
> 
> > Here is another dump of dmesg. I tried to trim it a little bit
> > where it made sense.
> 
> Looks like percpu data is corrupted. One of my earlier fixes dimensioned
> the kmem_cache_cpu array correctly. That is missing here.

Ah, that was pilot error on my part. I didn't realize that the
second patch you sent was to be in combination with the first.
Sorry about that.

> Combined fix:
> 
> ---
>  mm/slub.c |    5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
> =================================> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c	2010-01-21 16:39:26.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c	2010-01-21 16:40:35.000000000 -0600
> @@ -2086,7 +2086,7 @@ init_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache_n
>  #endif
>  }
> 
> -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kmem_cache_cpu, kmalloc_percpu[SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT]);
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kmem_cache_cpu, kmalloc_percpu[KMALLOC_CACHES]);
> 
>  static inline int alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags)
>  {
> @@ -2176,7 +2176,8 @@ static int init_kmem_cache_nodes(struct
>  	int node;
>  	int local_node;
> 
> -	if (slab_state >= UP)
> +	if (slab_state >= UP && (s < kmalloc_caches ||
> +			s > kmalloc_caches + KMALLOC_CACHES))
>  		local_node = page_to_nid(virt_to_page(s));
>  	else
>  		local_node = 0;
> 

Yup, the two together finally got it.

Reported-and-tested-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>

Thanks!
/ac