[BUG] Page allocation failures with newest kernels
From: Marcin Wojtas <hidden>
Date: 2016-05-31 10:37:52
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From: Marcin Wojtas <hidden>
Date: 2016-05-31 10:37:52
Also in:
linux-mm, lkml
Hi Robin,
I remember there were some issues around 4.2 with the revision of the arm64 atomic implementations affecting the cmpxchg_double() in SLUB, but those should all be fixed (and the symptoms tended to be considerably more fatal). A stronger candidate would be 97303480753e (which landed in 4.4), which has various knock-on effects on the layout of SLUB internals - does fiddling with L1_CACHE_SHIFT make any difference?
I'll check the commits, thanks. I forgot to add L1_CACHE_SHIFT was my first suspect - I had spent a long time debugging network controller, which stopped working because of this change - L1_CACHE_BYTES (and hence NET_SKB_PAD) not fitting HW constraints. Anyway reverting it didn't help at all for page alloc issue. Best regards, Marcin