Re: [VM/MEMORY-SICKNESS] 2.4.15-pre7 kmem_cache_create invalid opcode

From: Jeff Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.org)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 13:28:46 EST


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai Henningsen" <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [VM/MEMORY-SICKNESS] 2.4.15-pre7 kmem_cache_create invalid
opcode

> jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org (Jeff V. Merkey) wrote on 21.11.01 in
<20011121003304.A683@vger.timpanogas.org>:
>
> > download pre7, apply my patch, and do the build. I went back
> > over how I did the build, and this is the result of the build
> > if you have unpacked, patched, then run "make oldconfig." If I
> > do a "make dep" then this problem does not occur, and the build
>
> Isn't that exactly the FAQ Keith points out every other day or so (usually
> because of a modprobe "symbol not found"), one of the design bugs that
> kbuild 2.5 fixes (i.e., the kernel does not notice when it needs to make
> dep, so kbuild 2.5 handles dependencies differently)?
>
> MfG Kai

This is good news on the dependency methods.

Jeff

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