On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > This insta-reboots on my netperf benchmarking servers (but works with > > numa=off), so I'll have to wait until I can hook up a serial before > > benchmarking this series. > > There are potential issues with > > 1. The size of per cpu reservation on bootup and the new percpu code that > allows allocations for per cpu areas during bootup. Sometime I wonder if I > should just go back to static allocs for that. > > 2. The topology information provided by the machine for the cache setup. > > 3. My code of course. > I bisected this to patch 8 but still don't have a bootlog. I'm assuming in the meantime that something is kmallocing DMA memory on this machine prior to kmem_cache_init_late() and get_slab() is returning a NULL pointer. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>