The caller table can get quite large if there are many call sites for a
particular slab. Add GFP_FALLBACK allows falling back to vmalloc in case
the caller table gets too big and memory is fragmented. Currently we
would fail the operation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
---
mm/slub.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-10-03 20:00:23.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2007-10-03 20:01:12.000000000 -0700
@@ -3003,7 +3003,8 @@ static int alloc_loc_track(struct loc_tr
order = get_order(sizeof(struct location) * max);
- l = (void *)__get_free_pages(flags, order);
+ l = (void *)__get_free_pages(flags | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_VFALLBACK,
+ order);
if (!l)
return 0;
--
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
