SLUB: do not fail on broken memory configurations
Print a big fat warning and do what is necessary to continue if a node is
marked as up (meaning either node is online (upstream) or node has memory
(Andrew's tree)) but allocations from the node do not succeed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 0c106d7..04151da 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1877,9 +1877,16 @@
BUG_ON(kmalloc_caches->size < sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node));
- page = new_slab(kmalloc_caches, gfpflags | GFP_THISNODE, node);
+ page = new_slab(kmalloc_caches, gfpflags, node);
BUG_ON(!page);
+ if (page_to_nid(page) != node) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "SLUB: Unable to allocate memory from "
+ "node %d\n", node);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "SLUB: Allocating a useless per node structure "
+ "in order to be able to continue\n");
+ }
+
n = page->freelist;
BUG_ON(!n);
page->freelist = get_freepointer(kmalloc_caches, n);