From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so2104341rvb.26 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:19:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <84144f020801230019i5ac6c8b1lfa5364672988b0c4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:19:33 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" Subject: Re: crash in kmem_cache_init In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080118225713.GA31128@aepfle.de> <20080122195448.GA15567@csn.ul.ie> <20080122212654.GB15567@csn.ul.ie> <20080122225046.GA866@csn.ul.ie> <47967560.8080101@cs.helsinki.fi> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Mel Gorman , Olaf Hering , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , hanth Aravamudan , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, Linux MM , akpm@linux-foundation.org List-ID: Hi Christoph, On Jan 23, 2008 1:18 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > My patch is useless (fascinating history of the changelog there through). > fallback_alloc calls kmem_getpages without GFP_THISNODE. This means that > alloc_pages_node() will try to allocate on the current node but fallback > to neighboring node if nothing is there.... Sure, but I was referring to the scenario where current node _has_ pages available but no ->nodelists. Olaf, did you try it? Pekka -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org