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Revert "slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC"

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This reverts commit a640616822 ("slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC").

commit a640616822 ("slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC") assumes that the
system with !CONFIG_NUMA has only one memory node.  But, it turns out to
be false by the report from Geert.  His system, m68k, has many memory
nodes and is configured in !CONFIG_NUMA.  So it couldn't boot with above
change.

Here goes his failure report.

  With latest mainline, I'm getting a crash during bootup on m68k/ARAnyM:

  enable_cpucache failed for radix_tree_node, error 12.
  kernel BUG at /scratch/geert/linux/linux-m68k/mm/slab.c:1522!
  *** TRAP #7 ***   FORMAT=0
  Current process id is 0
  BAD KERNEL TRAP: 00000000
  Modules linked in:
  PC: [<0039c92c>] kmem_cache_init_late+0x70/0x8c
  SR: 2200  SP: 00345f90  a2: 0034c2e8
  d0: 0000003d    d1: 00000000    d2: 00000000    d3: 003ac942
  d4: 00000000    d5: 00000000    a0: 0034f686    a1: 0034f682
  Process swapper (pid: 0, task=0034c2e8)
  Frame format=0
  Stack from 00345fc4:
          002f69ef 002ff7e5 000005f2 000360fa 0017d806 003921d4 00000000
          00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 003ac942 00000000
          003912d6
  Call Trace: [<000360fa>] parse_args+0x0/0x2ca
   [<0017d806>] strlen+0x0/0x1a
   [<003921d4>] start_kernel+0x23c/0x428
   [<003912d6>] _sinittext+0x2d6/0x95e

  Code: f7e5 4879 002f 69ef 61ff ffca 462a 4e47 <4879> 0035 4b1c 61ff
  fff0 0cc4 7005 23c0 0037 fd20 588f 265f 285f 4e75 48e7 301c
  Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!

Although there is a alternative way to fix this issue such as disabling
use of alien cache on !CONFIG_NUMA, but, reverting issued commit is better
to me in this time.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joonsoo Kim 2014-08-08 14:19:15 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7f0d32e0c1
commit edcad25095
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -470,6 +470,8 @@ static struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_boot = {
.name = "kmem_cache",
};
#define BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC 0x01020304ul
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct delayed_work, slab_reap_work);
static inline struct array_cache *cpu_cache_get(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
@ -836,7 +838,7 @@ static int transfer_objects(struct array_cache *to,
static inline struct alien_cache **alloc_alien_cache(int node,
int limit, gfp_t gfp)
{
return NULL;
return (struct alien_cache **)BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC;
}
static inline void free_alien_cache(struct alien_cache **ac_ptr)