[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20070823130732.GC18456@skynet.ie>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:07:32 +0100
From: mel@...net.ie (Mel Gorman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:2876!
On (22/08/07 13:50), Andrew Morton didst pronounce:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:48:00 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > This:
> >
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~a
> > +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -2814,6 +2814,8 @@ static int __cpuinit process_zones(int c
> > return 0;
> > bad:
> > for_each_zone(dzone) {
> > + if (!populated_zone(zone))
> > + continue;
> > if (dzone == zone)
> > break;
> > kfree(zone_pcp(dzone, cpu));
> > _
> >
> > might help avoid the crash
>
> err, make that
>
We're already in the error path at this point and it's going to blow up.
The real problem is kmalloc_node() returning NULL for whatever reason.
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~a
> +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2814,6 +2814,8 @@ static int __cpuinit process_zones(int c
> return 0;
> bad:
> for_each_zone(dzone) {
> + if (!populated_zone(dzone))
> + continue;
> if (dzone == zone)
> break;
> kfree(zone_pcp(dzone, cpu));
> _
>
>
--
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists