From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751021AbVJ2LhU (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:37:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751027AbVJ2LhU (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:37:20 -0400 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:14757 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751021AbVJ2LhT (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:37:19 -0400 Message-ID: <43635EDE.3040108@colorfullife.com> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:37:02 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Davi Arnaut , greearb@candelatech.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1488! (2.6.13.2) References: <750c918d0510272032k79211b44vee825864d0f26438@mail.gmail.com> <20051027215312.57303595.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20051027215312.57303595.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >Davi Arnaut wrote: > > >> > It seems that something still tries to load the ext3 module, and I get the >> > BUG seen below. If I remove the ext3 module and re-build the initrd, >> > the error goes away. >> >> > >Yes, I think the kernel is overreacting here. > >Manfred, what sayest thou? > >(nb: untested) > > > It looks goot, it doesn't crash on boot >Notes: > >- Swaps the ranking of cache_chain_sem and lock_cpu_hotplug(). Doesn't seem > important. > > > Correct. It might even allow a further cleanup: Since both cpuup_callback and kmem_cache_create now runs entirely under cache_chain_sem, it could be possible to remove lock_cpu_hotplug() entirely. >Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > > Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul