Description of problem: Certain ES7000 configurations cause a kernel oops when drain_node_pages() is called in slab.c. We see this when NUMA is enabled, and we boot with CPUs in nodes that don't also have memory. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Milestone 7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure an ES7000 to use CPUs from all cells, but only memory from 1 Cell 2. Boot 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 140295 [details] Boot log with failure
This is also a problem in the vanilla kernel, and is fix by a patch I posted to the LKML. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/31/324
Created attachment 140296 [details] init_reap_node() fix patch
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Dan Yeisley reports that this patch has been accepted into 2.6.19-rc5.
This is already resolved in R5.
What's the version of the kernel that this patch went into?