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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:55:54 +0200
From: mhocko <mhocko@suse.de>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [mmots-2016-06-09-16-49] sleeping function called from
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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
-- 
Michal Hocko