kmem_cache_init() incorrectly assumes that the cache_cache object will
fit in an order 0 allocation. On very large systems, this is not
true. Change the code to try larger order allocations if order 0 fails.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <[email protected]>
Index: linux/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/slab.c 2006-03-01 16:07:31.000000000 -0600
+++ linux/mm/slab.c 2006-03-03 13:21:52.000000000 -0600
@@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
struct cache_sizes *sizes;
struct cache_names *names;
int i;
+ int order;
for (i = 0; i < NUM_INIT_LISTS; i++) {
kmem_list3_init(&initkmem_list3[i]);
@@ -1167,11 +1168,15 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
cache_cache.buffer_size = ALIGN(cache_cache.buffer_size, cache_line_size());
- cache_estimate(0, cache_cache.buffer_size, cache_line_size(), 0,
- &left_over, &cache_cache.num);
+ for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
+ cache_estimate(order, cache_cache.buffer_size, cache_line_size(), 0,
+ &left_over, &cache_cache.num);
+ if (cache_cache.num)
+ break;
+ }
if (!cache_cache.num)
BUG();
-
+ cache_cache.gfporder = order;
cache_cache.colour = left_over / cache_cache.colour_off;
cache_cache.slab_size = ALIGN(cache_cache.num * sizeof(kmem_bufctl_t) +
sizeof(struct slab), cache_line_size());
-
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