Re: [BUG] __GFP_THISNODE is not always honored

[Christoph Lameter]

Adam Litke wrote:
>
> So far my debugging has led me to get_page_from_freelist() inside the
> for_each_zone_zonelist() loop.  When buffered_rmqueue() returns a page I
> compare the value of page_to_nid(page), zone->node and the node that the
> hugetlb code requested with __GFP_THISNODE.  These all match -- except when the
> problem triggers.  In that case, zone->node matches the node we asked for but
> page_to_nid() does not.

Uhhh.. A page that was just taken off the freelist? So we may have freed or
coalesced a page to the wrong zone? Looks like there is something more
fundamental that broke here.
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