From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
nacc <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
mel@csn.ul.ie, apw <apw@shadowen.org>,
agl <agl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] __GFP_THISNODE is not always honored
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:21:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A9CBB3.6030700@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218837685.12953.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Adam Litke wrote:
>
> So far my debugging has led me to get_page_from_freelist() inside the
> for_each_zone_zonelist() loop. When buffered_rmqueue() returns a page I
> compare the value of page_to_nid(page), zone->node and the node that the
> hugetlb code requested with __GFP_THISNODE. These all match -- except when the
> problem triggers. In that case, zone->node matches the node we asked for but
> page_to_nid() does not.
Uhhh.. A page that was just taken off the freelist? So we may have freed or
coalesced a page to the wrong zone? Looks like there is something more
fundamental that broke here.
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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
nacc <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
mel@csn.ul.ie, apw <apw@shadowen.org>,
agl <agl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] __GFP_THISNODE is not always honored
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:21:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A9CBB3.6030700@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218837685.12953.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Adam Litke wrote:
>
> So far my debugging has led me to get_page_from_freelist() inside the
> for_each_zone_zonelist() loop. When buffered_rmqueue() returns a page I
> compare the value of page_to_nid(page), zone->node and the node that the
> hugetlb code requested with __GFP_THISNODE. These all match -- except when the
> problem triggers. In that case, zone->node matches the node we asked for but
> page_to_nid() does not.
Uhhh.. A page that was just taken off the freelist? So we may have freed or
coalesced a page to the wrong zone? Looks like there is something more
fundamental that broke here.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-18 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-15 22:01 [BUG] __GFP_THISNODE is not always honored Adam Litke
2008-08-15 22:01 ` Adam Litke
2008-08-18 10:59 ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-18 10:59 ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-18 18:16 ` Adam Litke
2008-08-18 19:57 ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-18 19:57 ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-18 19:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-18 19:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-18 19:21 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-08-18 19:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-18 19:52 ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-18 19:52 ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-20 17:08 ` [BUG] Make setup_zone_migrate_reserve() aware of overlapping nodes Adam Litke
2008-08-20 17:08 ` Adam Litke
2008-08-20 18:11 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-20 18:11 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-20 19:55 ` [BUG] [PATCH v2] " Adam Litke
2008-08-20 19:55 ` Adam Litke
2008-08-21 11:33 ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-21 11:33 ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-26 9:29 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-08-26 9:29 ` Andy Whitcroft
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