Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757997AbXFZSJ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:09:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756075AbXFZSJv (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:09:51 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:43244 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752379AbXFZSJv (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:09:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:09:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Hugh Dickins cc: Russell King , Linus Torvalds , Nicolas Ferre , ARM Linux Mailing List , Linux Kernel list , Marc Pignat , Andrew Victor , Pierre Ossman , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Oops in a driver while using SLUB as a SLAB allocator In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <467A4532.40301@rfo.atmel.com> <20070624083849.GA19079@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070624105152.GB14099@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> 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: 808 Lines: 17 On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Please reread mails of the last 20 hours. Your "ARM fix" may or may not > be a good thing, I don't know. But it had nothing to do with this oops, > which (we believe) came from a kmalloc in drivers/mmc/core/sd.c. There > are likely to be many other drivers which pass down kmalloc'ed buffers > to routines which handle both kmalloc'ed buffers and page buffers. > Though very few of those needing to flush_dcache_page. If that is so then those functions may want to check PageSlab before calling flush_dcache_page. - 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/