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| author | James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> | 2011-04-19 16:29:36 -0500 |
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| committer | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2012-03-14 10:57:26 -0400 |
| commit | b06b815212371a592c2df428a97bf6e3b57ff9ec (patch) | |
| tree | 64cd28b0faa55344a2da8535b906b86a4c30f3d7 /init | |
| parent | 1567c9c803d83fadfd7267c2c43ed9a1431a6191 (diff) | |
slub: fix panic with DISCONTIGMEM
commit 4a5fa3590f09999f6db41bc386bce40848fa9f63 upstream.
Slub makes assumptions about page_to_nid() which are violated by
DISCONTIGMEM and !NUMA. This violation results in a panic because
page_to_nid() can be non-zero for pages in the discontiguous ranges and
this leads to a null return by get_node(). The assertion by the
maintainer is that DISCONTIGMEM should only be allowed when NUMA is also
defined. However, at least six architectures: alpha, ia64, m32r, m68k,
mips, parisc violate this. The panic is a regression against slab, so
just mark slub broken in the problem configuration to prevent users
reporting these panics.
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 5fe94b82e4c..04e486cfbca 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1052,6 +1052,7 @@ config SLAB per cpu and per node queues. config SLUB + depends on BROKEN || NUMA || !DISCONTIGMEM bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" help SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage |