I think this is the correct fix. The NUMA fallback logic should be passing local_flags to kmem_get_pages() and not simply the flags.
Maybe a stable candidate since we are now simply passing on flags to the page allocator on the fallback path. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/slab.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.25-rc3-mm1/mm/slab.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.25-rc3-mm1.orig/mm/slab.c 2008-03-04 12:01:07.430911920 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.25-rc3-mm1/mm/slab.c 2008-03-04 12:04:54.449857145 -0800 @@ -3277,7 +3277,7 @@ retry: if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT) local_irq_enable(); kmem_flagcheck(cache, flags); - obj = kmem_getpages(cache, flags, -1); + obj = kmem_getpages(cache, local_flags, -1); if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT) local_irq_disable(); if (obj) { _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev