On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Oh. I see. The problem is calling kobject_uevent (which happens to > live in slabs sysfs_slab_add) with a lock held. And kobject_uevent > makes a blocking call to userspace. > > No locks held seems to be a good policy on that one. Well we can just remove that call to kobject_uevent instead then. Does it do anything useful? Cannot remember why we put that in there. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>