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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2006-06-23 13:03:46 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-23 18:42:52 +0400
commite0a42726794f71336ff4b26084d453dd597471ce (patch)
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parent668e0d8f1a02fd75f1c1e8142a6b08455914242c (diff)
downloadlinux-e0a42726794f71336ff4b26084d453dd597471ce.tar.xz
[PATCH] mm/slab.c: fix early init assumption
The SLAB bootstrap code assumes that the first two kmalloc caches created (the INDEX_AC and INDEX_L3 kmalloc caches) wont be off-slab. But due to AC and L3 structure size increase in lockdep, one of them ended up being off-slab, and subsequently crashing with: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP: [<ffffffff80267478>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x26/0x7d The fix is to introduce a bootstrap flag and to use it to prevent off-slab caches being created so early during bootup. (The calculation for off-slab caches is quite complex so i didnt want to complicate things with introducing yet another INDEX_ calculation, the flag approach is simpler and smaller.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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