Re: [discuss] mmap, mbind and write to mmap'ed memory crashes2.6.16-rc1[2] on 2 node X86_64

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> How about the appended patch? Does it fix the problem for you?

I think we still need to address the issue of being able to crash
the page allocator if an empty zone is in the zonelist. 

> This should work fine for now, but whoever implements node hot removal
> needs to fix this somewhere else too (or make sure zone datastructures 
> by itself never go away, only their memory)

Yup. Simply initializing the pcp structures with empty lists should 
suffice though.

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