From: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:24:57 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] do not free non slab allocated per_cpu_pageset
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[PATCH] do not free non slab allocated per_cpu_pageset

Stops panic associated with attempting to free a non slab-allocated
per_cpu_pageset.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3b5358a0561f..8a52ba9fe693 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1845,8 +1845,10 @@ static inline void free_zone_pagesets(int cpu)
 	for_each_zone(zone) {
 		struct per_cpu_pageset *pset = zone_pcp(zone, cpu);
 
+		/* Free per_cpu_pageset if it is slab allocated */
+		if (pset != &boot_pageset[cpu])
+			kfree(pset);
 		zone_pcp(zone, cpu) = NULL;
-		kfree(pset);
 	}
 }