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Message-ID: <46F08135.70401@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:23:57 +0530
From: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, balbir@...ibm.com,
clameter@....com, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 panic (memory controller issue ?)
Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:21 -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>> Hi Balbir,
>>
>> I get following panic from SLUB, while doing simple fsx tests.
>> I haven't used any container/memory controller stuff except
>> that I configured them in :(
>>
>> Looks like slub doesn't like one of the flags passed in ?
>>
>> Known issue ? Ideas ?
>>
>
> I think, I found the issue. I am still running tests to
> verify. Does this sound correct ?
>
> Thanks,
> Badari
>
> Need to strip __GFP_HIGHMEM flag while passing to mem_container_cache_charge().
>
> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
> mm/filemap.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.23-rc6/mm/filemap.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc6.orig/mm/filemap.c 2007-09-18 12:43:54.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.23-rc6/mm/filemap.c 2007-09-18 19:14:44.000000000 -0700
> @@ -441,7 +441,8 @@ int filemap_write_and_wait_range(struct
> int add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
> pgoff_t offset, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> {
> - int error = mem_container_cache_charge(page, current->mm, gfp_mask);
> + int error = mem_container_cache_charge(page, current->mm,
> + gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
> if (error)
> goto out;
>
>
>
Hi, Badari,
The fix looks correct, radix_tree_preload() does the same thing in
add_to_page_cache(). Thanks for identifying the fix
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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