linux-kernel - Re: kernel BUG in __cache_alloc_node at linux-2.6.git/mm/slab.c:3177!

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610190947110.8310@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:49:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG in __cache_alloc_node at linux-2.6.git/mm/slab.c:3177!

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> > Would you please make memory available on the node that you bootstrap 
> > the slab allocator on? numa_node_id() must point to a node that has memory 
> > available.
> 
> So we've gone from something that worked around sub optimal memory
> layouts to something that panics. Sounds like a step backwards to me.

Could you confirm that there is indeed no memory on node 0? 

The expectation to have memory available on the node that you 
bootstrap on is not unrealistic.

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