Re: [PATCH] stop null ptr deference in __alloc_pages

[Martin J. Bligh]

> If you applied an SGI patch that makes the zonelist contain all the zones
> of your machine, then the zonelist should not be NULL.
> If you allocate memory with gfp_mask & GFP_ZONEMASK == GFP_NORMAL from a
> HIGHMEM only node, then the first entry on the corresponding zonelist
> should be the first NORMAL zone on some other node.
> Am I missing something here ?

You're missing the fact that I'm missing the SGI patch ;-)

M.