Re: OOPS at boot in 2.4.17-rc[12] (kernel BUG at slab.c:815) maybe

[Andrew Morton]

Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> Gregor Suhr writes:
> > ...
> > kernel BUG at slab.c:815!

Somebody tried to create the same cache twice.  This can
happen when loading a buggy module the second time, various
things.

Please, apply this patch and run it again.

--- linux-2.4.17-rc2/mm/slab.c	Tue Dec 18 19:37:31 2001
+++ linux-akpm/mm/slab.c	Thu Dec 20 16:14:19 2001
@@ -811,8 +811,10 @@ next:
 			kmem_cache_t *pc = list_entry(p, kmem_cache_t, next);
 
 			/* The name field is constant - no lock needed. */
-			if (!strcmp(pc->name, name))
+			if (!strcmp(pc->name, name)) {
+				printk(__FUNCTION__ ": %s\n", name);
 				BUG();
+			}
 		}
 	}