Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 495 at mm/slab_common.c:69 kmem_cache_create+0x1a9/0x330()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jul 30 2014 - 14:00:12 EST


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:22:11PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> Some drivers like qla2xxx do not set proc_name. I think if 2 drivers
> like that are loaded then you will hit some other warns/bugs in the kmem
> cache setup code right?

Drivers have to opt into using their own caches by setting .cmd_size
in the host template. We could enforce they set ->proc_name for them,
but I'd rather keep the amount of sanity checks low unless there's a real
need.
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