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Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 21:04:40 +0200
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] slub crashes on dma allocations
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:17:17AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> So S390 has NUMA and the minalign is allowing very small slabs of 8/16/32 bytes?

No NUMA, but minalign is 8.

> Try this patch
> 
> From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
> Subject: SLUB: Allow full duplication of kmalloc array for 390
> 
> Seems that S390 is running out of kmalloc caches.
> 
> Increase the number of kmalloc caches to a safe size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>

Yes, that fixes the bug. Thanks!