linux-kernel - Re: Slab panic on 2.6.19-rc3-git5 (-git4 was OK)

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Date:	Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:59:41 -0800
From:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: Slab panic on 2.6.19-rc3-git5 (-git4 was OK)


>>> kernel BUG in cache_grow at mm/slab.c:2705!
>> This?
>>
>> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c~__vmalloc_area_node-fix
>> +++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
>> @@ -428,7 +428,8 @@ void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_stru
>>  	area->nr_pages = nr_pages;
>>  	/* Please note that the recursion is strictly bounded. */
>>  	if (array_size > PAGE_SIZE) {
>> -		pages = __vmalloc_node(array_size, gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL, node);
>> +		pages = __vmalloc_node(array_size, gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM,
>> +					PAGE_KERNEL, node);
>>  		area->flags |= VM_VPAGES;
>>  	} else {
>>  		pages = kmalloc_node(array_size,
>> _
> 
> /me shoves it into the tests... results in a couple of hours.

Seems like that doesn't fix it, I'm afraid.

M.
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