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yaml
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r: 346882
b: refs/heads/master
c: 3c58346
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 59a09917c95e5209135b4f1a87f1263d6ef40fdb
+refs/heads/master: 3c58346525d82625e68e24f071804c2dc057b6f4

trunk/include/linux/slab_def.h

@@ -89,9 +89,13 @@ struct kmem_cache {
 	 * (see kmem_cache_init())
 	 * We still use [NR_CPUS] and not [1] or [0] because cache_cache
 	 * is statically defined, so we reserve the max number of cpus.
+	 *
+	 * We also need to guarantee that the list is able to accomodate a
+	 * pointer for each node since "nodelists" uses the remainder of
+	 * available pointers.
 	 */
 	struct kmem_list3 **nodelists;
-	struct array_cache *array[NR_CPUS];
+	struct array_cache *array[NR_CPUS + MAX_NUMNODES];
 	/*
 	 * Do not add fields after array[]
 	 */

trunk/mm/slab.c

@@ -553,9 +553,7 @@ static struct arraycache_init initarray_generic =
     { {0, BOOT_CPUCACHE_ENTRIES, 1, 0} };
 
 /* internal cache of cache description objs */
-static struct kmem_list3 *kmem_cache_nodelists[MAX_NUMNODES];
 static struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_boot = {
-	.nodelists = kmem_cache_nodelists,
 	.batchcount = 1,
 	.limit = BOOT_CPUCACHE_ENTRIES,
 	.shared = 1,
@@ -1559,6 +1557,15 @@ static void __init set_up_list3s(struct kmem_cache *cachep, int index)
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * The memory after the last cpu cache pointer is used for the
+ * the nodelists pointer.
+ */
+static void setup_nodelists_pointer(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
+{
+	cachep->nodelists = (struct kmem_list3 **)&cachep->array[nr_cpu_ids];
+}
+
 /*
  * Initialisation.  Called after the page allocator have been initialised and
  * before smp_init().
@@ -1573,15 +1580,14 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
 	int node;
 
 	kmem_cache = &kmem_cache_boot;
+	setup_nodelists_pointer(kmem_cache);
 
 	if (num_possible_nodes() == 1)
 		use_alien_caches = 0;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < NUM_INIT_LISTS; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < NUM_INIT_LISTS; i++)
 		kmem_list3_init(&initkmem_list3[i]);
-		if (i < MAX_NUMNODES)
-			kmem_cache->nodelists[i] = NULL;
-	}
+
 	set_up_list3s(kmem_cache, CACHE_CACHE);
 
 	/*
@@ -1619,7 +1625,6 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
 	list_add(&kmem_cache->list, &slab_caches);
 	kmem_cache->colour_off = cache_line_size();
 	kmem_cache->array[smp_processor_id()] = &initarray_cache.cache;
-	kmem_cache->nodelists[node] = &initkmem_list3[CACHE_CACHE + node];
 
 	/*
 	 * struct kmem_cache size depends on nr_node_ids & nr_cpu_ids
@@ -2422,7 +2427,7 @@ __kmem_cache_create (struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long flags)
 	else
 		gfp = GFP_NOWAIT;
 
-	cachep->nodelists = (struct kmem_list3 **)&cachep->array[nr_cpu_ids];
+	setup_nodelists_pointer(cachep);
 #if DEBUG
 
 	/*