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SubjectRe: [BUG] commit 3c517a61, slab: better fallback allocation behavior
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.

Jay
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