Re: [Stable-review] [36/55] [PARISC] slub: fix panic withDISCONTIGMEM

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 4 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> > SLUB relies heavily on N_NORMAL_MEMORY, so these two patches fix that 
> > allocator but the problem is actually not just isolated to that subsystem; 
> > it fixes an issue with anything that uses N_NORMAL_MEMORY.
> > 
> > The former patch sets the nodes correctly for parisc and Michael's patch 
> > sets the nodes correctly for m68k, so it's the same fix for two different 
> > previously-broken architectures.
> 
> So if I understand you correctly, the Kconfig condition for SLUB is
> now wrong - only architectures that use DISCONTIGMEM's fake-NUMA and
> don't set the node states to N_NORMAL_MEMORY will break it.  And
> there's no good way to test for that in Kconfig.
> 

Right, I haven't seen a kernel panic from a kernel that still breaks after 
those two patches (the one for parisc and the one for m68k) were merged in 
the slub allocator.  James, if you have such a panic on parisc, please 
post it.

Thanks!
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