Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:07:39 -0800 (PST)
> Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Do we know why this is only reported in 2.6.25-rc3-mm1?
>
> Why does this need fixing in 2.6.24.x?
Looking at the code, it's triggerable in 2.6.24.3 at least. Why we don't
have a report yet, probably because (1) the default allocator is SLUB
which doesn't suffer from this and (2) you need a big honkin' NUMA box
that causes fallback allocations to happen to trigger it.
Pekka
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