linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1

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Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:41:45 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tj@...nel.org, npiggin@...nel.dk,
	rientjes@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> FYI, some sort of boot crash has snuck upstream in the last 24 hours:
>
>  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff87ffc147e020
>  IP: [<ffffffff811aa762>] this_cpu_cmpxchg16b_emu+0x2/0x1c

Hmmm.. This is the fallback code for the case that the processor does not
support cmpxchg16b.

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