> On Thu, 3 May 2007 09:46:32 +0100 (BST) Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2 May 2007 10:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > +config ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT
> > > > + bool
> > > > + default y
> > > > + depends on SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS <= NR_CPUS
> > > > +
> > >
> > > That all seems to work as intended.
> > >
> > > However with NR_CPUS=8 SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4, enabling SLUB=y crashes the
> > > machine early in boot.
> >
> > I thought that if that worked as intended, you wouldn't even
> > get the chance to choose SLUB=y? That was how it was working
> > for me (but I realize I didn't try more than make oldconfig).
> >
> > That sounds like what happens when SLUB's pagestruct use meets
> > SPLIT_PTLOCK's pagestruct use. Does your .config really show
> > CONFIG_SLUB=y together with CONFIG_ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT=y?
>
> Nope.
>
> g5:/usr/src/25> grep SLUB .config
> CONFIG_SLUB=y
> g5:/usr/src/25> grep SLAB .config
> # CONFIG_SLAB is not set
> g5:/usr/src/25> grep CPUS .config
> CONFIG_NR_CPUS=8
> # CONFIG_CPUSETS is not set
> # CONFIG_IRQ_ALL_CPUS is not set
> CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
>
> It's in
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-g5.txt
