linux-kernel - Re: [procfs] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:925

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Date:	Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:03:59 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@....com>
Cc:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [procfs] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:925

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:37:00 -0600, Nathan Zimmer said:

> I believe this should be fixed v5 of my patch.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136242660312006&w=2
>
> Alternatively the patch posted by Konstantin to fix up the current
> linux-next.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136264090218634&w=2

System boots and lives much longer on next-20130306 with Konstantin's
patch.  If your v5 is equivalent to Konstantin's, feel free to
stick my Tested-By: on it.

Now to figure out why udevd was able to cause a paging issue in
avc_has_perm_noaudit() - it appears totally unrelated to the above issue.

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