From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mhocko <mhocko@suse.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [mmots-2016-06-09-16-49] sleeping function called from slab_alloc()
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:59:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160610145916.d071635d6462e4d837959e45@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <477de582bf99ba64be662a42bf023b54@suse.de>
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:55:54 +0200 mhocko <mhocko@suse.de> wrote:
> On 2016-06-10 11:50, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > forked from http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=146553910928716&w=2
> >
> > new_slab()->BUG->die()->exit_signals() can be called from atomic
> > context: local IRQs disabled in slab_alloc().
>
> I have sent a patch to drop the BUG() from that path today. It
> is just too aggressive way to react to a non-critical bug.
> See
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465548200-11384-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Doesn't this simply mean that Sergey's workload will blurt a pr_warn()
rather than a BUG()? That still needs fixing. Confused.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-10 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-10 6:11 [mmots-2016-06-09-16-49] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:1616 Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-10 6:34 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-10 7:24 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-10 7:42 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-10 9:50 ` [mmots-2016-06-09-16-49] sleeping function called from slab_alloc() Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-10 9:55 ` mhocko
2016-06-10 9:58 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-10 21:59 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2016-06-13 10:47 ` Michal Hocko
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