On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > It also works okay both before the patches are applied, and with slab. Ok. I am seeing the same problem when using the following patch. That is pretty early during boot and so there may be issues with sysfs that the patchset caused. Looking into it. Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2012-08-02 09:36:04.855637689 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2012-08-02 09:42:04.358089667 -0500 @@ -3768,6 +3768,16 @@ caches, cache_line_size(), slub_min_order, slub_max_order, slub_min_objects, nr_cpu_ids, nr_node_ids); + + { struct kmem_cache *qq; + + qq = create_kmalloc_cache("qq", 800, 0); + kmem_cache_destroy(qq); + + qq = create_kmalloc_cache("qq", 800, 0); + kmem_cache_destroy(qq); + } + } void __init kmem_cache_init_late(void) -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>