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Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:17:12 +0530
From:	Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Next April 28: boot failure on PowerPC with SLQB

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hmm, forget that. Actually my last patch had a silly mistake because I
> forgot MAX_ORDER shift is applied to PAGE_SIZE, rather than 1. So
> kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE) was failing as too large.
>
> This patch should do the trick I hope.
>   
Yes this patch fixed the issue for me. Thanks Nick.

Regards
-Sachin
> Thanks,
> Nick
> ---
>  include/linux/slqb_def.h |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/slqb_def.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/slqb_def.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/slqb_def.h
> @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ struct kmem_cache {
>  #endif
>
>  #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW ilog2(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE)
> -#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_SLQB_HIGH (PAGE_SHIFT + 9)
> +#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_SLQB_HIGH (PAGE_SHIFT + 			\
> +				 ((9 <= (MAX_ORDER - 1)) ? 9 : (MAX_ORDER - 1)))
>
>  extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[KMALLOC_SHIFT_SLQB_HIGH + 1];
>  extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches_dma[KMALLOC_SHIFT_SLQB_HIGH + 1];
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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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