From: Christoph Lameter Slab should not allocate control structures for nodes without memory. This may seem to work right now but its unreliable since not all allocations can fall back due to the use of GFP_THISNODE. Switching a few for_each_online_node's to N_NORMAL_MEMORY will allow us to only allocate for nodes that have regular memory. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn Acked-by: Bob Picco Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/slab.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/slab.c~memoryless-nodes-slab-support mm/slab.c --- a/mm/slab.c~memoryless-nodes-slab-support +++ a/mm/slab.c @@ -1568,7 +1568,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void) /* Replace the static kmem_list3 structures for the boot cpu */ init_list(&cache_cache, &initkmem_list3[CACHE_CACHE], node); - for_each_online_node(nid) { + for_each_node_state(nid, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) { init_list(malloc_sizes[INDEX_AC].cs_cachep, &initkmem_list3[SIZE_AC + nid], nid); @@ -1944,7 +1944,7 @@ static void __init set_up_list3s(struct { int node; - for_each_online_node(node) { + for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) { cachep->nodelists[node] = &initkmem_list3[index + node]; cachep->nodelists[node]->next_reap = jiffies + REAPTIMEOUT_LIST3 + @@ -2075,7 +2075,7 @@ static int __init_refok setup_cpu_cache( g_cpucache_up = PARTIAL_L3; } else { int node; - for_each_online_node(node) { + for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) { cachep->nodelists[node] = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct kmem_list3), GFP_KERNEL, node); @@ -3792,7 +3792,7 @@ static int alloc_kmemlist(struct kmem_ca struct array_cache *new_shared; struct array_cache **new_alien = NULL; - for_each_online_node(node) { + for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) { if (use_alien_caches) { new_alien = alloc_alien_cache(node, cachep->limit); _