> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 11:47 PM
> To: Earle, Jonathan [KAN:1A31:EXCH]
> Cc: Linux MPLS List (E-mail); Linux Kernel List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Kernel oops in mm/slab.c [ kmem_cache_grow() ]
> with test4-8
>
>
> > Jonathan Earle wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been having kernel oopses with the 2.4.0-test series and am
> > including ksymoops processed output from both test4 and test5
> > kernels. The same oops happens in later kernels too (Tested with
> > test6, test7 and test8).
> >
>
> Presumably mpls_output() is doing a kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL)
> from within
> a softirq. Hunt that down and turn it into GFP_ATOMIC.
Okay... Did that (turned all the GFP_KERNEL refereces in net/mpls to GFP_ATOMIC, and the problem seems to have gone away, I'll post a more confident summary when I'm more sure that things are working properly.
Now, what did I do (aside from fixing the problem) by changing that reference?
Many thanks for the hint!!
Jon
