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
next prev parent 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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