Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (slabtree related)

[Pekka Enberg]

On 8/25/10 11:18 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 08/24/2010 08:53 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > [    0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Cannot create slab kmem_cache
> > > size=232 realsize=256 order=0 offset=0 flags=42000
> >
> > alloc per cpu result in kmalloc which fails.
> >
> > Tejon: Is there some way we could get a reserved per cpu area under UP
> > instead of fallback to slab allocations during bootup?
>
> Eh... nasty.  Maybe we can create a alloc_percpu_early() function
> which doesn't allow freeing of allocate memory and just redirect to
> bootmem on UP?

Yeah, I was thinking about that too.

				Pekka


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