From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Subject: Re: x86/mce: machine check warning during poweroff
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:34:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120115023404.GA4268@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8MBbJS0YNUmqOV_d6hug=FesghYay4gQGdaBX_OhYt6sbF-Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 06:05:24PM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > The driver core isn't designed to handle device structures that get
> > unregistered and then spring back to life; callers are supposed to
> > allocate a fresh new structure instead.
>
> Does every caller use "kzalloc()" for this fresh new structure (or even
> for the original registration) rather than "kmalloc()"?
They better, as that's what they are required to do :)
The kernel would be crashing with slab debugging enabled, if it wasn't
so today.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-15 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 0:00 x86/mce: machine check warning during poweroff Djalal Harouni
2012-01-12 14:22 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-13 20:22 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-13 20:34 ` Justin P. Mattock
2012-01-13 20:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 20:53 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-13 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 21:24 ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-13 21:38 ` Justin P. Mattock
2012-01-13 22:06 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-13 22:17 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-13 22:18 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-13 23:13 ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-14 0:44 ` Dirk Gouders
2012-01-13 23:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 23:27 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-14 0:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 2:41 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-14 2:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 3:05 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-14 3:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 3:18 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-14 3:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 5:15 ` Tony Luck
2012-01-14 14:49 ` Greg KH
2012-01-14 16:30 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-14 20:45 ` Jeff Chua
2012-01-15 2:05 ` Tony Luck
2012-01-15 2:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-15 3:36 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-16 18:15 ` Greg KH
2012-01-16 18:11 ` Greg KH
2012-01-16 18:27 ` Luck, Tony
2012-01-16 18:34 ` Greg KH
2012-01-16 18:42 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-17 2:21 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-01-17 9:52 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-17 16:15 ` Jeff Chua
2012-01-17 16:36 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-18 3:17 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-01-18 10:19 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-18 13:15 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-18 13:32 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2012-01-18 22:08 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-01-19 7:50 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2012-01-19 12:02 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-01-20 2:28 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-01-23 8:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 20:27 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/nohz: Fix nohz cpu idle load balancing state with cpu hotplug tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
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