crash in kmem_cache_init

Christoph Lameter clameter at sgi.com
Wed Jan 23 10:18:52 EST 2008


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....





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