Re: BUG: enable_cpucache failed for radix_tree_node, error 12 (was: Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC)

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > Ok this is broken on m68k. CONFIG_NUMA is required for this to work. If
> > the arch code does this despite !CONFIG_NUMA then lots of things should
> > break.
>
> Can you please elaborate? We've been using for years...

!CONFIG_NUMA leads to the assumption of a system with a single node in
numerous places.

F.e. in include/linux/mm.h:


static inline int zone_to_nid(struct zone *zone)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
        return zone->node;
#else
        return 0;
#endif
}


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