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Commit e0a42726 authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] mm/slab.c: fix early init assumption



The SLAB bootstrap code assumes that the first two kmalloc caches created
(the INDEX_AC and INDEX_L3 kmalloc caches) wont be off-slab.  But due to AC
and L3 structure size increase in lockdep, one of them ended up being
off-slab, and subsequently crashing with:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP:
 [<ffffffff80267478>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x26/0x7d

The fix is to introduce a bootstrap flag and to use it to prevent off-slab
caches being created so early during bootup.

(The calculation for off-slab caches is quite complex so i didnt want to
complicate things with introducing yet another INDEX_ calculation, the flag
approach is simpler and smaller.)

Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 668e0d8f
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