In include/linux/slab_def.h circa linux 3.0, this def for field nodelists:
struct kmem_cache {
/* 1) per-cpu data, touched during every alloc/free */
struct array_cache *array[NR_CPUS];
...
struct kmem_list3 *nodelists[MAX_NUMNODES];
/*
* Do not add fields after nodelists[]
*/
};
Became this in 3.1:
struct kmem_cache {
...
/* 6) per-cpu/per-node data, touched during every alloc/free */
/*
* We put array[] at the end of kmem_cache, because we want to
size
* this array to nr_cpu_ids slots instead of NR_CPUS
* (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.
*/
struct kmem_list3 **nodelists;
struct array_cache *array[NR_CPUS];
/*
* Do not add fields after array[]
*/
};
Which causes this in crash/memory.c:vm_init()
ARRAY_LENGTH_INIT(vt->kmem_cache_len_nodes, NULL,
"kmem_cache.nodelists", NULL, 0);
to set vt->kmem_cache_len_nodes to 0, and leads to the initialization
failure when max_cpudata_limit calls getbuf with a size of 0.
Got a fix in the works yet?
Thanks,
Bob Montgomery