Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 kernel panic while bootup on powerpc ()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:07:39 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> I think this is the correct fix.
> 
> The NUMA fallback logic should be passing local_flags to kmem_get_pages() 
> and not simply the flags.
> 
> Maybe a stable candidate since we are now simply 
> passing on flags to the page allocator on the fallback path.

Do we know why this is only reported in 2.6.25-rc3-mm1?

Why does this need fixing in 2.6.24.x?

Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> 
> ---
>  mm/slab.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.25-rc3-mm1/mm/slab.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc3-mm1.orig/mm/slab.c	2008-03-04 12:01:07.430911920 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc3-mm1/mm/slab.c	2008-03-04 12:04:54.449857145 -0800
> @@ -3277,7 +3277,7 @@ retry:
>  		if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
>  			local_irq_enable();
>  		kmem_flagcheck(cache, flags);
> -		obj = kmem_getpages(cache, flags, -1);
> +		obj = kmem_getpages(cache, local_flags, -1);
>  		if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
>  			local_irq_disable();
>  		if (obj) {