Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:41:32 -0600 | From | Jay Cliburn <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] commit 3c517a61, slab: better fallback allocation behavior |
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Christoph Lameter wrote: > Ahh. Fallback_alloc() does not do the check for GFP_WAIT as done in > cache_grow(). Thus interrupts are disabled when we call kmem_getpages() > which results in the failure. > > Duplicate the handling of GFP_WAIT in cache_grow(). > > Jay could you try this patch?
The patch seems to fix the bug. I've been running about an hour with it now, and I haven't seen any error messages. Prior to the patch, I'd see the messages within a few minutes of starting a login session.
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