Re: kernel BUG in __cache_alloc_node at linux-2.6.git/mm/slab.c:3177!

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

Here is another fall back fix checking if the slab has already been setup 
for this node. MPOL_INTERLEAVE could redirect the allocation.

Index: linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1.orig/mm/slab.c	2006-10-10 21:47:12.949563383 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/mm/slab.c	2006-10-13 17:21:31.937863714 -0500
@@ -3158,12 +3158,15 @@ void *fallback_alloc(struct kmem_cache *
 	struct zone **z;
 	void *obj = NULL;
 
-	for (z = zonelist->zones; *z && !obj; z++)
+	for (z = zonelist->zones; *z && !obj; z++) {
+		int nid = zone_to_nid(*z);
+
 		if (zone_idx(*z) <= ZONE_NORMAL &&
-				cpuset_zone_allowed(*z, flags))
+				cpuset_zone_allowed(*z, flags) &&
+				cache->nodelists[nid])
 			obj = __cache_alloc_node(cache,
-					flags | __GFP_THISNODE,
-					zone_to_nid(*z));
+					flags | __GFP_THISNODE, nid);
+	}
 	return obj;
 }
 

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