linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: fix bootstrap on memoryless node

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Message-ID: <20080123213229.GA21045@aepfle.de>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:32:29 +0100
From:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	mel@....ul.ie, clameter@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: fix bootstrap on memoryless node

On Wed, Jan 23, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> 
> If the node we're booting on doesn't have memory, bootstrapping kmalloc()
> caches resorts to fallback_alloc() which requires ->nodelists set for all
> nodes.  Fix that by calling set_up_list3s() for CACHE_CACHE in
> kmem_cache_init().
> 
> Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> ---
> Olaf, can you please test this against a clean git head with this revert 
> applied before this patch:

Yes, the system boots with both patches applied.
Thanks.
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