The patch titled slob: handle SLAB_PANIC flag has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is slob-handle-slab_panic-flag.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: slob: handle SLAB_PANIC flag From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> kmem_cache_create() for slob doesn't handle SLAB_PANIC. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slob.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/slob.c~slob-handle-slab_panic-flag mm/slob.c --- a/mm/slob.c~slob-handle-slab_panic-flag +++ a/mm/slob.c @@ -298,7 +298,8 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(con c->align = (flags & SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN) ? SLOB_ALIGN : 0; if (c->align < align) c->align = align; - } + } else if (flags & SLAB_PANIC) + panic("Cannot create slab cache %s\n", name); return c; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module.patch slob-handle-slab_panic-flag.patch simplify-the-stacktrace-code.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html