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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> | 2009-06-16 15:31:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 19:47:31 -0700 |
| commit | 6c0db4664b49417d80988953e69c323721353227 (patch) | |
| tree | 83ec1fcf3607b06c8c3cc2d39b5d10a61289cdd6 /mm | |
| parent | 58568d2a8215cb6f55caf2332017d7bdff954e1c (diff) | |
mm: alloc_large_system_hash check order
On an x86_64 with 4GB ram, tcp_init()'s call to alloc_large_system_hash(),
to allocate tcp_hashinfo.ehash, is now triggering an mmotm WARN_ON_ONCE on
order >= MAX_ORDER - it's hoping for order 11. alloc_large_system_hash()
had better make its own check on the order.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 7cc3179e3591..cbed869fd831 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4511,7 +4511,10 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename, table = __vmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC, PAGE_KERNEL); else { unsigned long order = get_order(size); - table = (void*) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order); + + if (order < MAX_ORDER) + table = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, + order); /* * If bucketsize is not a power-of-two, we may free * some pages at the end of hash table. |