Re: [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages_node

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

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:40:25 -0700 "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/13/07, Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Patch gone too ;) I deleted it.  I was hoping that you'd send me the final
> > > finished product (please).
> > >
> >
> > Ha.., the patch against 2.6.22, at your patch have use htlb_alloc_mask, but I
> > cannot found it at 2.6.22 kernel tree, I think you must use difference kernel
> > tree :)
> 
> I believe this patch will be unnecessary if my "Fix hugetlb pool
> allocation with empty nodes" patch gets pulled into -mm.
> alloc_fresh_huge_page() now takes a mempolicy which is created by the
> two callers, rather than reinventing interleaving itself. I believe
> this will avoid the oops you saw. I am still waiting on some test
> results (annoying -mm config changes) before I repost them (and they
> depend on Christoph's fixes for memoryless nodes).

Could be so, but the patch which I have queued is nice and simple and
can be backported into 2.6.22.x.