![]() | |||||||||||||
Messages in this thread |
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 06:35, Andrew Morton wrote: > fbcon is trying to call kmalloc before the slab system is initialised. > It would be best to fix that within fbcon. This solves the problem too. > Well as the comment says, if this CPU isn't online yet, and if the system > has not yet reached SYSTEM_RUNNING state then we bale out of the printk > because this cpu's per-cpu resources may not yet be fully set up. After the CPU is offline (we are doing CPU hotplug). Its per-cpu resources like kmalloc also aren't initialized. This is in SYSTEM_RUNNING state too, so the system state doesn't matter. Removing the system state check seems better than fixing the fbcon driver to me. Thanks, Shaohua - 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/ | ||||||||||||
| Last update: 2005-04-25 02:55 [from the cache] ©2003-2008 | |||||||||||||