On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Eek, the calls to __kmem_cache_create() in the boot path as it sits in > > slab/next right now are ignoring SLAB_PANIC. > > Any failure to create a slab cache during early boot is fatal and we panic > unconditionally. Like before as far as I can tell but without the use of > SLAB_PANIC. > With your patch, yeah, but right now mm/slab.c calls directly into __kmem_cache_create() with SLAB_PANIC which never gets respected during bootstrap since it is handled in kmem_cache_create() in slab/next. So this patch could actually be marketed as a bugfix :) -- 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>