slub: fix panic with DISCONTIGMEM

commit 4a5fa3590f09999f6db41bc386bce40848fa9f63 upstream.

Slub makes assumptions about page_to_nid() which are violated by
DISCONTIGMEM and !NUMA.  This violation results in a panic because
page_to_nid() can be non-zero for pages in the discontiguous ranges and
this leads to a null return by get_node().  The assertion by the
maintainer is that DISCONTIGMEM should only be allowed when NUMA is also
defined.  However, at least six architectures: alpha, ia64, m32r, m68k,
mips, parisc violate this.  The panic is a regression against slab, so
just mark slub broken in the problem configuration to prevent users
reporting these panics.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 5fe94b82e4c0a7ee5b779b58b8db09c162533f51..04e486cfbcac2cd6bfe2fd68b9bb96699d869465 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1052,6 +1052,7 @@ config SLAB
          per cpu and per node queues.
 
 config SLUB
+       depends on BROKEN || NUMA || !DISCONTIGMEM
        bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
        help
           SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage