Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932178AbWELRro (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 13:47:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932176AbWELRro (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 13:47:44 -0400 Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:11963 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932174AbWELRrn (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 13:47:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [BUG 2.6.17-git] kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache scsi_cmd_cache From: James Bottomley To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Erik Mouw , Or Gerlitz , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, axboe@suse.de, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20060511151456.GD3755@harddisk-recovery.com> <15ddcffd0605112153q57f139a1k7068e204a3eeaf1f@mail.gmail.com> <20060512171632.GA29077@harddisk-recovery.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:47:18 -0500 Message-Id: <1147456038.3769.39.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 20 On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 10:36 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, that's just _strange_. Clearly bisection picked the right commit, > since: I can guess what the problem is. The kmem_cache_release is triggered from the device model release of the host generic device. I suspect we've induced a tangle in here that means scsi devices (and hence hosts) get deleted but never released. I'll look at the release paths and see if I can work out what it is. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/