Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934080AbXEPU5V (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 16:57:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759514AbXEPU5L (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 16:57:11 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:40771 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756541AbXEPU5J (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 16:57:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:44:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Christoph Lameter cc: Michal Piotrowski , Andrew Morton , LKML , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, David Chinner , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "Cherwin R. Nooitmeer" , Dave Airlie , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mundt , Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Oleg Nesterov , Alex Dubov , Pierre Ossman Subject: Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc1: known regressions v2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <464B6743.9000607@googlemail.com> <464B6A2B.9020703@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 31 On Wed, 16 May 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > Memory management > > > > Subject : kernel BUG at include/linux/slub_def.h:88 kmalloc_index() > > References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8476 > > Submitter : Cherwin R. Nooitmeer > > Status : Unknown > > > This a kmalloc(0) that needs fixing. Well, "needs fixing" is a bit strong. It's a scary message for something we've always handled, and that we still handle fine, we just complain about it. So we'll probably just turn the message off for 2.6.22, but in the meantime, we leave it on and try to fix as many of these as we can be bothered to. Linus - 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/