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

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Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:09:04 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Mike Kravetz <kravetz@...ibm.com>, will_schmidt@...t.ibm.com,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG in __cache_alloc_node at
 linux-2.6.git/mm/slab.c:3177!

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:00:34 +0100
Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org> wrote:

> > I'll follow up to this email with the reversion patch we used in
> > testing.  It seems to sort this problem out at least, though now its
> > blam'ing in ibmveth, so am retesting with yet another patch.  This patch
> > reverts the two patches above and updates the commentry on the Kconfig
> > entry.
> 
> Ok, I've just gotten a successful boot on this box for the first time in
> like 15 git releases.  I needed the three patches below:
> 
> clameter-fallback_alloc_fix2 -- from earlier in this thread, under the
> message ID below:
>     <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610131515200.28279@...roedinger.engr.sgi.com>

That's this:

Here is another fall back fix checking if the slab has already been setup 
for this node. MPOL_INTERLEAVE could redirect the allocation.

Index: linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1.orig/mm/slab.c	2006-10-10 21:47:12.949563383 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/mm/slab.c	2006-10-13 17:21:31.937863714 -0500
@@ -3158,12 +3158,15 @@ void *fallback_alloc(struct kmem_cache *
 	struct zone **z;
 	void *obj = NULL;
 
-	for (z = zonelist->zones; *z && !obj; z++)
+	for (z = zonelist->zones; *z && !obj; z++) {
+		int nid = zone_to_nid(*z);
+
 		if (zone_idx(*z) <= ZONE_NORMAL &&
-				cpuset_zone_allowed(*z, flags))
+				cpuset_zone_allowed(*z, flags) &&
+				cache->nodelists[nid])
 			obj = __cache_alloc_node(cache,
-					flags | __GFP_THISNODE,
-					zone_to_nid(*z));
+					flags | __GFP_THISNODE, nid);
+	}
 	return obj;
 }
 

Christoph, can you please finalise and resend that?

> Reintroduce-NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES-for-powerpc -- the patch I just
> submitted, under the message ID below:
>     <8a76dfd735e544016c5f04c98617b87d@...ky>

OK, I got that.

> ibmveth-fix-index-increment-calculation -- this patch is already in -mm.

Normally a Jeff thing, but small-and-simple.  I'll send that in to Linus
today.

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