Re: 2.6.14-rc1-git-now still dying in mm/slab - this time line 1849

[Christoph Lameter]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Alok Kataria wrote:

> As pointed by Christoph,  In kmalloc_node we are cheking if, the allocation is
> for the
> same node when interrupts are "on", this may lead to an allocation on another
> node than intended.
> This patch just shifts the check for the current node in __cache_alloc_node
> when interrupts
> are disabled.

Alokk, could you verify that this patch works?

Petr, could you check that this patch fixes your issue? I am a bit 
skeptical. I do not think we have found the real problem yet. We need to 
have some way to reproduce the problem if it still persists after applying 
Alokk's patch.


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