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SubjectRe: [discuss] mmap, mbind and write to mmap'ed memory crashes 2.6.16-rc1[2] on 2 node X86_64
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > So a provisional solution would be to simply ignore empty zones in
> > bind_zonelist?
>
> That would likely prevent the crash yes (Bharata can you test?)
>
> But of course it still has the problem of a lot of memory being unpolicied
> on machines with >4GB if there's both DMA32 and NORMAL.

The fix could result in a zonelist with no zones. So we can answer one
question in __alloc_pages().

Index: linux-2.6.16-rc2/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc2.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-02-08 00:05:09.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc2/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-02-08 08:18:59.000000000 -0800
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ restart:
z = zonelist->zones; /* the list of zones suitable for gfp_mask */

if (unlikely(*z == NULL)) {
- /* Should this ever happen?? */
+ /* May occur if MPOL_BIND results in an empty zonelist */
return NULL;
}

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