Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:2876!

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Aug 23 2007 - 09:07:43 EST


On (22/08/07 13:50), Andrew Morton didst pronounce:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:48:00 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This:
> >
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~a
> > +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -2814,6 +2814,8 @@ static int __cpuinit process_zones(int c
> > return 0;
> > bad:
> > for_each_zone(dzone) {
> > + if (!populated_zone(zone))
> > + continue;
> > if (dzone == zone)
> > break;
> > kfree(zone_pcp(dzone, cpu));
> > _
> >
> > might help avoid the crash
>
> err, make that
>

We're already in the error path at this point and it's going to blow up.
The real problem is kmalloc_node() returning NULL for whatever reason.

> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~a
> +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2814,6 +2814,8 @@ static int __cpuinit process_zones(int c
> return 0;
> bad:
> for_each_zone(dzone) {
> + if (!populated_zone(dzone))
> + continue;
> if (dzone == zone)
> break;
> kfree(zone_pcp(dzone, cpu));
> _
>
>

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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