Re: crash in kmem_cache_init

Christoph Lameter
2008-01-22T23:19:03Z

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> But I doubt that this is it. The fallback logic was added later and it
> worked fine.

My patch is useless (fascinating history of the changelog there through).
fallback_alloc calls kmem_getpages without GFP_THISNODE. This means that
alloc_pages_node() will try to allocate on the current node but fallback
to neighboring node if nothing is there....