Re: 2.6.14-rc2 early boot OOPS (mm/slab.c:1767)

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 12:08:46 EST


On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Tomi Lapinlampi wrote:

> > Hmmm. I am not familiar with Alpha. The .config looks as if this is a
> > uniprocessor configuration? No NUMA?
>
> This is a simple uniprocessor configuration, no NUMA, no SMP.
>
> > What is the value of MAX_NUMNODES?
>
> I'm not familiar with NUMA, where can I check this (or does this question
> even apply since it's not a NUMA system) ?

Well, one use of memory nodes is to describe discontiguous memory on some
architectures. Thus the number of nodes may be more than one even if
CONFIG_NUMA is off. This is the case f.e. on ppc64. There may be some arch
specific settings that cause problems here.


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