From: Hugh Dickins pdflush hit the BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page)) in kmem_freepages called from fallback_alloc: cache_grow already freed those pages when alloc_slabmgmt failed. But it wouldn't have freed them if __GFP_NO_GROW, so make sure fallback_alloc doesn't waste its time on that case. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka J Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/slab.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/slab.c~fix-bug_onpageslab-from-fallback_alloc mm/slab.c --- a/mm/slab.c~fix-bug_onpageslab-from-fallback_alloc +++ a/mm/slab.c @@ -3281,7 +3281,7 @@ retry: flags | GFP_THISNODE, nid); } - if (!obj) { + if (!obj && !(flags & __GFP_NO_GROW)) { /* * This allocation will be performed within the constraints * of the current cpuset / memory policy requirements. @@ -3310,7 +3310,7 @@ retry: */ goto retry; } else { - kmem_freepages(cache, obj); + /* cache_grow already freed obj */ obj = NULL; } } _