Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:01:48 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: SLUB bug on sparc64 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:34:52 -0700 (PDT)
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > When I force SLUB debugging on sparc64, it barfs on early bootup while > > making the sysfs nodes. Removing the BUG()'s on the sysfs error > > returns, and adding some tracing I captured the log below. > > > > BTW, I would recommending removing the BUG() calls, they serve only to > > force someone hitting them to edit them out and reboot which is > > absolutely pointless :-) This code can also often run before the > > console is first enabled, making analysis of the error return that > > much harder if it BUG()'s instead of trying to continue. > > Not sure what BUG's you are talking about.
The two BUG_ON()'s on "err" as returned from sysfs_slab_alias() and sysfs_slab_add().
> Does this patch fix it?
Yep, it does, thanks a lot! - 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/
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