From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:05:13 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Slab panic on 2.6.19-rc3-git5 (-git4 was OK) Message-Id: <20061029000513.de5af713.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <454442DC.9050703@google.com> References: <454442DC.9050703@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm , Andy Whitcroft , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:57:48 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: > -git4 was fine. -git5 is broken (on PPC64 blade) > > As -rc2-mm2 seemed fine on this box, I'm guessing it's something > that didn't go via Andrew ;-( Looks like it might be something > JFS or slab specific. Bigger PPC64 box with different config > was OK though. > > Full log is here: http://test.kernel.org/abat/59046/debug/console.log > Good -git4 run: http://test.kernel.org/abat/58997/debug/console.log > > kernel BUG in cache_grow at mm/slab.c:2705! This? --- a/mm/vmalloc.c~__vmalloc_area_node-fix +++ a/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -428,7 +428,8 @@ void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_stru area->nr_pages = nr_pages; /* Please note that the recursion is strictly bounded. */ if (array_size > PAGE_SIZE) { - pages = __vmalloc_node(array_size, gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL, node); + pages = __vmalloc_node(array_size, gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM, + PAGE_KERNEL, node); area->flags |= VM_VPAGES; } else { pages = kmalloc_node(array_size, _ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org