The patch titled do not free non slab allocated per_cpu_pageset has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is do-not-free-non-slab-allocated-per_cpu_pageset.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: do not free non slab allocated per_cpu_pageset From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Stops panic associated with attempting to free a non slab-allocated per_cpu_pageset. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~do-not-free-non-slab-allocated-per_cpu_pageset mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~do-not-free-non-slab-allocated-per_cpu_pageset +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1845,8 +1845,10 @@ static inline void free_zone_pagesets(in for_each_zone(zone) { struct per_cpu_pageset *pset = zone_pcp(zone, cpu); + /* Free per_cpu_pageset if it is slab allocated */ + if (pset != &boot_pageset[cpu]) + kfree(pset); zone_pcp(zone, cpu) = NULL; - kfree(pset); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are do-not-free-non-slab-allocated-per_cpu_pageset.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html