[BUG] 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 kernel panic while bootup on powerpc ()

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> >  > >> [c000000009edf5f0] [c0000000000b56e4] .__alloc_pages_internal+0xf8/0x470
> >  > >> [c000000009edf6e0] [c0000000000e0458] .kmem_getpages+0x8c/0x194
> >  > >> [c000000009edf770] [c0000000000e1050] .fallback_alloc+0x194/0x254
> >  > >> [c000000009edf820] [c0000000000e14b0] .kmem_cache_alloc+0xd8/0x144

Ahh! This is SLAB. slub does not suffer this problem since new_slab() 
masks the bits correctly.

So we need to fix SLAB.