Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Use SLAB_PANIC when creating critical slab cache

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:11:01 +0000

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:18:37PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> The following trivial patches update networking code to use the SLAB_PANIC
> flag when creating a critical slab cache instead of doing localized calls
> to panic().  This brings networking inline with other core kernel code.
> 
>  core/flow.c       |    5 +----
>  core/skbuff.c     |    4 +---
>  decnet/dn_route.c |    9 +++------
>  ipv4/inetpeer.c   |    5 +----
>  ipv4/ipmr.c       |    5 +----
>  ipv6/ip6_fib.c    |    4 +---
>  ipv6/route.c      |    9 +++------
>  xfrm/xfrm_input.c |    4 +---

decnet, ipv6 and xfrm can be modular, so using SLAB_PANIC there is bogus.