Subject: Re: [mmots-2016-06-09-16-49] sleeping function called from slab_alloc()

From: mhocko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:55:54 +0200

On 2016-06-10 11:50, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> forked from http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=146553910928716&w=2
> 
> new_slab()->BUG->die()->exit_signals() can be called from atomic
> context: local IRQs disabled in slab_alloc().

I have sent a patch to drop the BUG() from that path today. It
is just too aggressive way to react to a non-critical bug.
See 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email-masked]
-- 
Michal Hocko