Andrew Morton wrote: [snip] >>IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32KBytes >>kmem_cache_create: Early error in slab ip_fib_hash >>-----[ cut here ] ----- >>kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1185! >>invalid operand: 0000 [#1] >>PREEMPT [snip] I am hitting the same stop on my amd64 box. With your patch the following is reported: in_interrupt(): 268435200 (ie 0x0fffff00) preempt_count(): ffffffff size: 336 kmem_cache_create: Early error in slab xfrm_dst_cache -----[ cut here Kernel bug at slab:1188 invalid operand 0000 [1] PREEMPT Attached is my .config