From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Luck, Tony" Subject: RE: ia64 dies in slab code on next-20120906 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:52:18 +0000 Message-ID: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F19D3C056@ORSMSX108.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20120907112606.7d09e84c4782b748a95e1946@canb.auug.org.au> <00000139a722a761-bafedf19-81a0-4922-a522-a2bb0fbb951a-000000@email.amazonses.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:5915 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754070Ab2IJRwU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:52:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <00000139a722a761-bafedf19-81a0-4922-a522-a2bb0fbb951a-000000@email.amazonses.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Christoph Lameter , Stephen Rothwell Cc: "linux-next@vger.kernel.org" , Pekka Enberg - kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT, order); + kmem_cache = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO, order); This patch is in next-20120910 ... which boots just fine on ia64. Thanks. > Thanks for testing. My daughter has been in the ICU since Thursday and I > had to guess that this was the right solution based on what I was able > to glean on from experiences of others with the issue. Never was able to > truly test the fix or even do a kernel build while the crisis was going > on here. She just was moved out of the ICU an hour ago so I will be > able to do more next week. If only medical science worked like computer science. A couple of people around the world see some symptoms and do some superficial diagnosis and within hours you have a one line patch to make it all better. Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your daughter. -Tony