On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > Fine. But, why are we hitting fallback_alloc() in the first place? It's > definitely not because of missing ->nodelists as we do: > > cache_cache.nodelists[node] = &initkmem_list3[CACHE_CACHE]; > > before attempting to set up kmalloc caches. Now, if I understood > correctly, we're booting off a memoryless node so kmem_getpages() will > return NULL thus forcing us to fallback_alloc() which is unavailable at > this point. > > As far as I can tell, there are two ways to fix this: > > (1) don't boot off a memoryless node (why are we doing this in the first > place?)
Right. That is the solution that I would prefer. > (2) initialize cache_cache.nodelists with initmem_list3 equivalents > for *each node hat has normal memory* Or simply do it for all. SLAB bootstrap is very complex thing though. > > I am still wondering why this worked before, though. I doubt it did ever work for SLAB. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
