Re: highmem deadlock fix [was Re: VM in 2.4.10(+tweaks) vs. 2.4.9-ac14/15(+stuff)]

Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28T01:29:24Z

Note that if you do end up applying my suggested patch for testing, you
also need to add __GFP_WAITBUF to SLAB_LEVEL_MASK in <linux/slab.h>
otherwise the slab allocator will be really unhappy the first time it sees
any normal allocation..

(Ie very early at boot).

Linus