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* [PATCH mmotm] slub: zero page to fix boot crashes
@ 2012-09-09  3:42 Hugh Dickins
  2012-09-09  6:21 ` Christoph
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Hugh Dickins @ 2012-09-09  3:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pekka Enberg
  Cc: Christoph Lameter, Glauber Costa, Andrew Morton, mm-commits,
	linux-kernel, linux-mm, linux-fsdevel, linux-next

Latest mmotm rarely boots if SLUB is enabled: earlyprintk=vga shows
it crashing with various backtraces.  The memset has now been removed
from kmem_cache_open(), so kmem_cache_init() needs to zero its page.
This gets SLUB booting reliably again.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
---

 mm/slub.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- mmotm/mm/slub.c	2012-09-07 12:39:38.136019730 -0700
+++ fixed/mm/slub.c	2012-09-08 19:37:38.608993123 -0700
@@ -3712,7 +3712,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
 	/* Allocate two kmem_caches from the page allocator */
 	kmalloc_size = ALIGN(kmem_size, cache_line_size());
 	order = get_order(2 * kmalloc_size);
-	kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT, order);
+	kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_ZERO, order);
 
 	/*
 	 * Must first have the slab cache available for the allocations of the

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* Re: [PATCH mmotm] slub: zero page to fix boot crashes
  2012-09-09  3:42 [PATCH mmotm] slub: zero page to fix boot crashes Hugh Dickins
@ 2012-09-09  6:21 ` Christoph
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christoph @ 2012-09-09  6:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Hugh Dickins
  Cc: Pekka Enberg, Glauber Costa, Andrew Morton, mm-commits,
	linux-kernel, linux-mm, linux-fsdevel, linux-next

Yes that fix was already sent by me.



On Sep 8, 2012, at 22:42, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:

> Latest mmotm rarely boots if SLUB is enabled: earlyprintk=vga shows
> it crashing with various backtraces.  The memset has now been removed
> from kmem_cache_open(), so kmem_cache_init() needs to zero its page.
> This gets SLUB booting reliably again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> ---
> 
> mm/slub.c |    2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- mmotm/mm/slub.c    2012-09-07 12:39:38.136019730 -0700
> +++ fixed/mm/slub.c    2012-09-08 19:37:38.608993123 -0700
> @@ -3712,7 +3712,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
>    /* Allocate two kmem_caches from the page allocator */
>    kmalloc_size = ALIGN(kmem_size, cache_line_size());
>    order = get_order(2 * kmalloc_size);
> -    kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT, order);
> +    kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_ZERO, order);
> 
>    /*
>     * Must first have the slab cache available for the allocations of the

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