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SLUB: do not fail on broken memory configurations

Print a big fat warning and do what is necessary to continue if a node is
marked as up (meaning either node is online (upstream) or node has memory
(Andrew's tree)) but allocations from the node do not succeed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Christoph Lameter 18 years ago
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      mm/slub.c

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mm/slub.c

@@ -1877,9 +1877,16 @@ static struct kmem_cache_node * __init early_kmem_cache_node_alloc(gfp_t gfpflag
 
 	BUG_ON(kmalloc_caches->size < sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node));
 
-	page = new_slab(kmalloc_caches, gfpflags | GFP_THISNODE, node);
+	page = new_slab(kmalloc_caches, gfpflags, node);
 
 	BUG_ON(!page);
+	if (page_to_nid(page) != node) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "SLUB: Unable to allocate memory from "
+				"node %d\n", node);
+		printk(KERN_ERR "SLUB: Allocating a useless per node structure "
+				"in order to be able to continue\n");
+	}
+
 	n = page->freelist;
 	BUG_ON(!n);
 	page->freelist = get_freepointer(kmalloc_caches, n);