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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: gregor@suhr.home.cs.tu-berlin.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOPS  at boot in 2.4.17-rc[12]  (kernel BUG at slab.c:815) maybe  devfs
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:15:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C227F0E.E6A9CF76@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C210AB9.5000900@suhr.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>, <3C210AB9.5000900@suhr.home.cs.tu-berlin.de> <200112202338.fBKNcCI05673@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>

Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> Gregor Suhr writes:
> > ...
> > kernel BUG at slab.c:815!

Somebody tried to create the same cache twice.  This can
happen when loading a buggy module the second time, various
things.

Please, apply this patch and run it again.

--- linux-2.4.17-rc2/mm/slab.c	Tue Dec 18 19:37:31 2001
+++ linux-akpm/mm/slab.c	Thu Dec 20 16:14:19 2001
@@ -811,8 +811,10 @@ next:
 			kmem_cache_t *pc = list_entry(p, kmem_cache_t, next);
 
 			/* The name field is constant - no lock needed. */
-			if (!strcmp(pc->name, name))
+			if (!strcmp(pc->name, name)) {
+				printk(__FUNCTION__ ": %s\n", name);
 				BUG();
+			}
 		}
 	}

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-21  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-19 21:46 OOPS at boot in 2.4.17-rc[12] (kernel BUG at slab.c:815) maybe devfs Gregor Suhr
2001-12-20 23:38 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-21  0:15   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
     [not found]     ` <3C23842A.20407@Suhr.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
     [not found]       ` <200112211926.fBLJQ7814544@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
     [not found]         ` <3C2392EC.6050306@Suhr.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
2001-12-21 20:05           ` Richard Gooch
     [not found]         ` <3C23A022.5040307@Suhr.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
2001-12-21 22:02           ` Richard Gooch
     [not found]   ` <3C23843A.3040904@Suhr.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
2001-12-21 19:16     ` Richard Gooch

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