Re: segfault on kmem_cache_create

[Zeeshan Ali <zeelists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,
   Oh i am such a super-idiot, i was using a big name,
which was'nt allowed. Thanks a lot pankaj, just one
sentence from you saved me from hours of debugging.
  
--- pankaj chauhan <chauhan_ait@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> hi , 
> 
> 
> Why do'nt u go to slab.c ( line 642, as indicated by
> ur err log ) and see where the problem is .. i'll
> also
> look in the code and get back to u ...
> 
> Rgds,
> Pankaj
> 
>  --- Zeeshan Ali <zeelists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
> Hello,
> > 
> > I get a segfault when i try to insmod a module
> that
> > calls kmem_cache_create. Here is the 'relevent'
> > code:
> > 
> > node_cache =
> >      kmem_cache_create ("hash_table_nodes_cache", 
> >          sizeof (HashTableNode),
> >          0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL, NULL);
> > 
> > the value of sizeof (HashTableNode) is 16.
> > Here is the exact error i get:
> > 
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > kernel BUG at slab.c:642!
> > invalid operand: 0000


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