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

From: Tejun Heo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:18:31 +0200

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?

-- 
tejun