Re: Slab panic on 2.6.19-rc3-git5 (-git4 was OK)

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Sun Oct 29 2006 - 18:00:37 EST



kernel BUG in cache_grow at mm/slab.c:2705!
This?

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~__vmalloc_area_node-fix
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -428,7 +428,8 @@ void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_stru
area->nr_pages = nr_pages;
/* Please note that the recursion is strictly bounded. */
if (array_size > PAGE_SIZE) {
- pages = __vmalloc_node(array_size, gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL, node);
+ pages = __vmalloc_node(array_size, gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM,
+ PAGE_KERNEL, node);
area->flags |= VM_VPAGES;
} else {
pages = kmalloc_node(array_size,
_

/me shoves it into the tests... results in a couple of hours.

Seems like that doesn't fix it, I'm afraid.

M.
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