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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 kernel panic while bootup on powerpc ()
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:01:29 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803041200140.18277@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020803041141x5bb55832r495d7fde92356e27@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> >  > >> [c000000009edf5f0] [c0000000000b56e4] .__alloc_pages_internal+0xf8/0x470
> >  > >> [c000000009edf6e0] [c0000000000e0458] .kmem_getpages+0x8c/0x194
> >  > >> [c000000009edf770] [c0000000000e1050] .fallback_alloc+0x194/0x254
> >  > >> [c000000009edf820] [c0000000000e14b0] .kmem_cache_alloc+0xd8/0x144

Ahh! This is SLAB. slub does not suffer this problem since new_slab() 
masks the bits correctly.

So we need to fix SLAB.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-04 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080304011928.e8c82c0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04 13:12 ` [BUG] 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 kernel panic while bootup on powerpc () Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-04 14:40   ` Michael Neuling
2008-03-04 18:33     ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-05  8:23       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-06  0:03       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-06  0:44         ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-06  0:52           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-04 18:36   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-04 18:47     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-04 19:18     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-04 19:35       ` Mel Gorman
2008-03-04 19:41         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-04 19:56           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 20:01             ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-03-04 20:02               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 20:07               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 20:08                 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-05  2:28                   ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-04 20:34                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-04 20:44                   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-04 21:44                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-05 14:02                   ` Mel Gorman
2008-03-05 14:31                 ` Mel Gorman
2008-03-04 20:01           ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-03-05  8:22   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-04 19:20 ` [BUG] 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 kernel bug while running libhugetlbfs Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-04 19:51   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-04 22:01     ` Adam Litke
2008-03-05  7:52       ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-05 21:34 ` 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 ppc64 boot hang Badari Pulavarty
2008-03-05 21:54   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-05 22:35     ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-03-05 23:17     ` Stephen Rothwell

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