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mm, debug: test for online nid when allocating on single node
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:31 +0000 (15:11 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:13:50 +0000 (15:13 +1100)
commit8f277514b6605acd4b311e40151c3cb255654dc6
tree36373be2f011902830b2ab11cd942c194ed00c7f
parenteaca835e7781212bc5b48a829fa71293fa9995bc
mm, debug: test for online nid when allocating on single node

Calling alloc_pages_exact_node() means the allocation only passes the
zonelist of a single node into the page allocator.  If that node isn't
online, it's zonelist may never have been initialized causing a strange
oops that may not immediately be clear.

I recently debugged an issue where node 0 wasn't online and an allocator
was passing 0 to alloc_pages_exact_node() and it resulted in a NULL
pointer on zonelist->_zoneref.  If CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled, though, it
would be nice to catch this a bit earlier.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/gfp.h