From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261153AbTEHHgj (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 03:36:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261156AbTEHHgi (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 03:36:38 -0400 Received: from ausmtp02.au.ibm.COM ([202.135.136.105]:28149 "EHLO ausmtp02.au.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261153AbTEHHgi (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 03:36:38 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu Cc: akpm@zip.com.au, Dipankar Sarma , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 May 2003 13:12:37 +0530." <20030508074237.GA2760@in.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 17:47:34 +1000 Message-Id: <20030508074907.276E517DE0@ozlabs.au.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In message <20030508074237.GA2760@in.ibm.com> you write: > But still, even after actually calling init_committed_space > with the newer patch (The first one which you mailed to Andrew in this > thread) I get an oops at __alloc_percpu. > > Here's the oops report...looks like the > struct pcpu_block *pcpu has NULL... Damn initialization order. Change: __initcall(init_alloc_percpu); to core_initcall(init_alloc_percpu); Anyway, patch has been scrapped, at least for now. Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.