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From: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: crash in kmem_cache_init
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On 1/18/08, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> Could you try this patch?
>
> Memoryless nodes: Set N_NORMAL_MEMORY for a node if we do not support
> HIGHMEM
>
> It seems that we only scan through zones to set N_NORMAL_MEMORY only if
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_NUMA are set. We need to set
> N_NORMAL_MEMORY
> in the !CONFIG_HIGHMEM case.

I'm testing this exact patch right now on the machine Mel saw the issues with.

Thanks,
Nish