Re: [PATCH] slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init()

From: Daniel Yeisley
Date: Wed Mar 26 2008 - 08:59:49 EST


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:21 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Will merge if I get confirmation that this indeed addresses the issue.
>
> It fixes the problem reported by Daniel:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/25/249
>
> But what I worry about is breaking setups that have memoryless nodes.
>
> Pekka

The only way I could get the ES7000 to boot with 2.6.24.x was with
memoryless nodes (or numa=off). The list corruption I saw was due to
CPU 0 not being on node 0.
I do see problems with memoryless nodes on 2.6.25-rc. I'll post a patch
for that shortly.

Dan
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