commit 0837aca7b42f1bc9cd8dc1cd4d10aa2aaddaf84d
Author: Joe Korty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   Wed Mar 5 15:04:59 2008 -0800

    slab: NUMA slab allocator migration bugfix
    
    NUMA slab allocator cpu migration bugfix
    
    The NUMA slab allocator (specifically, cache_alloc_refill)
    is not refreshing its local copies of what cpu and what
    numa node it is on, when it drops and reacquires the irq
    block that it inherited from its caller.  As a result
    those values become invalid if an attempt to migrate the
    process to another numa node occured while the irq block
    had been dropped.
    
    The solution is to make cache_alloc_refill reload these
    variables whenever it drops and reacquires the irq block.
    
    The error is very difficult to hit.  When it does occur,
    one gets the following oops + stack traceback bits in
    check_spinlock_acquired:
    
        kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2417
        cache_alloc_refill+0xe6
        kmem_cache_alloc+0xd0
        ...
    
    This patch was developed against 2.6.23, ported to and
    compiled-tested only against 2.6.25-rc4.
    
    Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index ff31261..79c3be0 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2961,11 +2961,10 @@ static void *cache_alloc_refill(struct kmem_cache 
*cachep, gfp_t flags)
        struct array_cache *ac;
        int node;
 
-       node = numa_node_id();
-
+retry:
        check_irq_off();
+       node = numa_node_id();
        ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
-retry:
        batchcount = ac->batchcount;
        if (!ac->touched && batchcount > BATCHREFILL_LIMIT) {
                /*
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