Re: 2.5.46: sleeping function called from illegal context at mm/slab.c:1305

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Kent Yoder wrote:
> 
>   Seen on boot from 2.5.46-bk pulled earlier today.  This is a UP pentium 3
> w/ 256 MB RAM. For some reason this sounds like a duplicate but I didn't see
> anything...
> 
> Kent
> 
> slab: reap timer started for cpu 0
> Starting kswapd
> aio_setup: sizeof(struct page) = 40
> [cfea2020] eventpoll: driver installed.
> Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at mm/slab.c:1305
> Call Trace:
>  [<c0143367>] kmem_flagcheck+0x67/0x70
>  [<c0143d47>] kmalloc+0x67/0xc0
>  [<c01461bf>] set_shrinker+0x1f/0xa0
>  [<c0188a10>] mb_cache_create+0x1f0/0x2d0
>  [<c0188640>] mb_cache_shrink_fn+0x0/0x1e0
>  [<c0160299>] do_kern_mount+0xa9/0xe0
>  [<c01050c3>] init+0x83/0x1b0
>  [<c0105040>] init+0x0/0x1b0
>  [<c010730d>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18

Yup, thanks.  Andreas has prepared a patch which fixes this up.
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