On (04/03/08 12:07), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce:
> 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]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks Christoph.
>
> ---
> 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) {
>
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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