Memoryless nodes: All memory is normal memory if we do not support HIGHMEM It seems that we only scan through zones to set N_NORMAL_MEMORY if CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_NUMA are set. We need to set N_NORMAL_MEMORY in the !CONFIG_HIGHMEM case. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2008-01-18 14:08:41.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c 2008-01-18 14:13:34.000000000 -0800 @@ -3812,7 +3812,6 @@ restart: /* Any regular memory on that node ? */ static void check_for_regular_memory(pg_data_t *pgdat) { -#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM enum zone_type zone_type; for (zone_type = 0; zone_type <= ZONE_NORMAL; zone_type++) { @@ -3820,7 +3819,6 @@ static void check_for_regular_memory(pg_ if (zone->present_pages) node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_NORMAL_MEMORY); } -#endif } /**