Bug 9755

Summary: crash in kmem_cache_init
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware Reporter: Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component: PPC-64Assignee: Anton Blanchard (anton)
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: clameter, olh, penberg, randy.dunlap
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.24-rc1 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 9243    

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-01-15 13:02:16 UTC 
Subject         : crash in kmem_cache_init
Submitter       : Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Date            : 2008-01-15 16:09
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/15/180

Probably caused by:

commit 04231b3002ac53f8a64a7bd142fde3fa4b6808c6
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 16 01:25:32 2007 -0700

    Memoryless nodes: Slab support

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=04231b3002ac53f8a64a7bd142fde3fa4b6808c6
Comment 1 Pekka Enberg 2008-01-23 13:07:13 UTC 
This patch on top of Mel's slab N_NORMAL_MEMORY revert should fix the problem:
 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/23/332