Re: [BUG] slub crashes on dma allocations

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Sun May 30 2010 - 06:05:31 EST


Heiko Carstens wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:17:17AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
So S390 has NUMA and the minalign is allowing very small slabs of 8/16/32 bytes?

No NUMA, but minalign is 8.

Try this patch

From: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: SLUB: Allow full duplication of kmalloc array for 390

Seems that S390 is running out of kmalloc caches.

Increase the number of kmalloc caches to a safe size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, that fixes the bug. Thanks!

We need this for .33 and .34 stable, right?
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