On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Anyway, looking at where this crashed, it seems that the page variable > can be NULL when passed to the node_match() function (which does not > check if it is NULL). When this happens we get the above panic. > > As page is only used in slab_alloc() to check if the node matches, if > it's NULL I'm assuming that we can say it doesn't and call the > __slab_alloc() code. Is this a correct assumption? c->page should only be NULL when c->freelist == NULL but obviously there are race conditions where c->freelist may not have been zapped but c->page was. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>