On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 24.8.2010 20.59, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the report. The problem should be fixed by this commit: > > > > Its not that easy. __alloc_percpu falls back to kzalloc() on UP and this > > can result in unique bootstrap problems with UP since the bootstrap array > > is no longer there. Does the UP kernel boot? > > No, I get this under kvm: > [ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Cannot create slab kmem_cache > size=232 realsize=256 order=0 offset=0 flags=42000 alloc per cpu result in kmalloc which fails. Tejon: Is there some way we could get a reserved per cpu area under UP instead of fallback to slab allocations during bootup? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
