linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] commit 3c517a61, slab: better fallback allocation behavior

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Message-ID: <457DB46C.4080009@bellsouth.net>
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:41:32 -0600
From:	Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@...lsouth.net>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] commit 3c517a61, slab: better fallback allocation behavior

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Ahh. Fallback_alloc() does not do the check for GFP_WAIT as done in 
> cache_grow(). Thus interrupts are disabled when we call kmem_getpages() 
> which results in the failure.
> 
> Duplicate the handling of GFP_WAIT in cache_grow().
> 
> Jay could you try this patch?

The patch seems to fix the bug.  I've been running about an hour with it now, 
and I haven't seen any error messages.  Prior to the patch, I'd see the messages 
within a few minutes of starting a login session.

Jay
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