Re: [BUG] slub crashes on dma allocations

From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 15:03:46 EST


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:17:17AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> So S390 has NUMA and the minalign is allowing very small slabs of 8/16/32 bytes?

No NUMA, but minalign is 8.

> Try this patch
>
> From: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: SLUB: Allow full duplication of kmalloc array for 390
>
> Seems that S390 is running out of kmalloc caches.
>
> Increase the number of kmalloc caches to a safe size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, that fixes the bug. Thanks!
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