Hi Joonsoo, On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> wrote: > BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC value isn't used anymore. So remove it. > > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> > --- > mm/slab.c | 4 +--- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c > index 7820a45..60c9e11 100644 > --- a/mm/slab.c > +++ b/mm/slab.c > @@ -470,8 +470,6 @@ static struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_boot = { > .name = "kmem_cache", > }; > > -#define BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC 0x01020304ul > - > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct delayed_work, slab_reap_work); > > static inline struct array_cache *cpu_cache_get(struct kmem_cache *cachep) > @@ -838,7 +836,7 @@ static int transfer_objects(struct array_cache *to, > static inline struct alien_cache **alloc_alien_cache(int node, > int limit, gfp_t gfp) > { > - return (struct alien_cache **)BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC; > + return NULL; > } With latest mainline, I'm getting a crash during bootup on m68k/ARAnyM: enable_cpucache failed for radix_tree_node, error 12. kernel BUG at /scratch/geert/linux/linux-m68k/mm/slab.c:1522! *** TRAP #7 *** FORMAT=0 Current process id is 0 BAD KERNEL TRAP: 00000000 Modules linked in: PC: [<0039c92c>] kmem_cache_init_late+0x70/0x8c SR: 2200 SP: 00345f90 a2: 0034c2e8 d0: 0000003d d1: 00000000 d2: 00000000 d3: 003ac942 d4: 00000000 d5: 00000000 a0: 0034f686 a1: 0034f682 Process swapper (pid: 0, task=0034c2e8) Frame format=0 Stack from 00345fc4: 002f69ef 002ff7e5 000005f2 000360fa 0017d806 003921d4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 003ac942 00000000 003912d6 Call Trace: [<000360fa>] parse_args+0x0/0x2ca [<0017d806>] strlen+0x0/0x1a [<003921d4>] start_kernel+0x23c/0x428 [<003912d6>] _sinittext+0x2d6/0x95e Code: f7e5 4879 002f 69ef 61ff ffca 462a 4e47 <4879> 0035 4b1c 61ff fff0 0cc4 7005 23c0 0037 fd20 588f 265f 285f 4e75 48e7 301c Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! I bisected it to commit a640616822b2c3a8009b0600f20c4a76ea8a0025 Author: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed Aug 6 16:04:38 2014 -0700 slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC value isn't used anymore. So remove it. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Error 12 is ENOMEM, so I first thought it went out-of-memory, but just reverting the above commit on mainline makes it work again. I don't see the failure on ARM. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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>