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From: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] commit 3c517a61, slab: better fallback allocation behavior
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:41:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <457DB46C.4080009@bellsouth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612110930180.500@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Ahh. Fallback_alloc() does not do the check for GFP_WAIT as done in 
> cache_grow(). Thus interrupts are disabled when we call kmem_getpages() 
> which results in the failure.
> 
> Duplicate the handling of GFP_WAIT in cache_grow().
> 
> Jay could you try this patch?

The patch seems to fix the bug.  I've been running about an hour with it now, 
and I haven't seen any error messages.  Prior to the patch, I'd see the messages 
within a few minutes of starting a login session.

Jay

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-11 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-10 19:49 [BUG] commit 3c517a61, slab: better fallback allocation behavior Jay Cliburn
2006-12-10 20:49 ` Paul Jackson
2006-12-10 22:14   ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 17:13     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-11 17:37       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-11 19:41         ` Jay Cliburn [this message]
2006-12-12 18:57         ` Paul Jackson
2006-12-12 19:22           ` Christoph Lameter

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