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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:36:43 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [slub] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/slub.c:1511 __kmem_cache_create() On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Dave Hansen wrote: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=c65c1877bd6826ce0d9713d76e30a7bed8e49f38 > > I think the assert is just bogus at least in the early case. > early_kmem_cache_node_alloc() says: > * No kmalloc_node yet so do it by hand. We know that this is the first > * slab on the node for this slabcache. There are no concurrent accesses > * possible. > > Should we do something like the attached patch? (very lightly tested) > Yeah, I think that's the best option to keep the runtime checking to ensure the proper lock is held on debug kernels with lockdep enabled and is better than reverting back to the comment. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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