Hello everyone,
Oh i am such a super-idiot, i was using a big name,
which was'nt allowed. Thanks a lot pankaj, just one
sentence from you saved me from hours of debugging.
--- pankaj chauhan <chauhan_ait@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> hi ,
>
>
> Why do'nt u go to slab.c ( line 642, as indicated by
> ur err log ) and see where the problem is .. i'll
> also
> look in the code and get back to u ...
>
> Rgds,
> Pankaj
>
> --- Zeeshan Ali <zeelists@yahoo.com> wrote: >
> Hello,
> >
> > I get a segfault when i try to insmod a module
> that
> > calls kmem_cache_create. Here is the 'relevent'
> > code:
> >
> > node_cache =
> > kmem_cache_create ("hash_table_nodes_cache",
> > sizeof (HashTableNode),
> > 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL, NULL);
> >
> > the value of sizeof (HashTableNode) is 16.
> > Here is the exact error i get:
> >
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > kernel BUG at slab.c:642!
> > invalid operand: 0000
=====
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