Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 02:00:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 02:00:49 -0500 Received: from vger.timpanogas.org ([207.109.151.240]:18048 "EHLO vger.timpanogas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 02:00:34 -0500 Message-ID: <002501c1725a$19022a80$f5976dcf@nwfs> From: "Jeff Merkey" To: "Jeff Merkey" , , "David S. Miller" Cc: Subject: Re: [VM/MEMORY-SICKNESS] 2.4.15-pre7 kmem_cache_create invalid opcode Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:59:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > You are really a fucking pain in the ass to help Jeff. > > Dave, I went and looked at this stuff. I have been running this code for > over a year on 2.4 and I AM NOT CREATING A SLAB CACHE TWICE!!!! > I am building an NWFS module external of the kernel tree, and unless make > dep > has been run, the default behavior of the includes causes me to drop into > the > BUG() trap. This is a bug in how these includes are structured. It may be ok to leave the damn thing the way it is, but warn folks who build custom drivers (like the SCI drivers I maintain for Dolphin, NWFS, etc.) that their f_cking code will be broken and generate these garbage errors if they have not run make dep against the tree they try to build against. I would not have expected you or most LKML folks to have seen this, since you live in a world where everything is in the kernel tree. I am telling you there is a problem there, and it can bite. After I build this module (since the generated code thatr ends up in the external module is crap) it will routinely crash over and over gain until it gets rebuilt against a kernel that has had make dep (and make bzImage) run against it. Jeff > > Jeff > > > > - > > 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/ > - 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/