From: Christoph Lameter Profiling really suffers with off node buffers. Fail if no memory is available on the nodes. The profiling code can deal with these failures should they occur. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/profile.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/profile.c~profiling-require-buffer-allocation-on-the-correct-node kernel/profile.c --- a/kernel/profile.c~profiling-require-buffer-allocation-on-the-correct-node +++ a/kernel/profile.c @@ -309,13 +309,17 @@ static int __devinit profile_cpu_callbac node = cpu_to_node(cpu); per_cpu(cpu_profile_flip, cpu) = 0; if (!per_cpu(cpu_profile_hits, cpu)[1]) { - page = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0); + page = alloc_pages_node(node, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE, + 0); if (!page) return NOTIFY_BAD; per_cpu(cpu_profile_hits, cpu)[1] = page_address(page); } if (!per_cpu(cpu_profile_hits, cpu)[0]) { - page = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0); + page = alloc_pages_node(node, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE, + 0); if (!page) goto out_free; per_cpu(cpu_profile_hits, cpu)[0] = page_address(page); @@ -491,12 +495,16 @@ static int __init create_hash_tables(voi int node = cpu_to_node(cpu); struct page *page; - page = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0); + page = alloc_pages_node(node, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE, + 0); if (!page) goto out_cleanup; per_cpu(cpu_profile_hits, cpu)[1] = (struct profile_hit *)page_address(page); - page = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0); + page = alloc_pages_node(node, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE, + 0); if (!page) goto out_cleanup; per_cpu(cpu_profile_hits, cpu)[0] _