Re: [PATCH] Fix 2.5.3pre reiserfs BUG() at boot time

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 06:07:47 EST


On Mon, Jan 28 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:02:54AM +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> >
> > 2.5.3-pre5 + this patch still can't boot my system. I haven't had
> > time to copy down oops at boot, will do if needed.
>
> Please do. I cannot see anything in the patch that should prevent bootup
> though, so I would also recommend a make clean and recompile first just
> to make sure it isn't a broken build.

Probably the kmem_cache_create 'name too long' bug that Viro pointed out
to me. fs/reiserfs/super.c:init_inodecache(). Change the name passed to
kmem_cache_create to something shorter.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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