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Commit 4f12bb4f authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] slab: don't BUG on duplicated cache



slab presently goes BUG if someone tries to register an already-registered
cache.

But this can happen if the user accidentally loads a module which is already
statically linked into the kernel.  Nuking the kernel is rather a harsh
reaction.

Change it into a warning, and just fail the kmem_cache_alloc() attempt.  If
the module is well-behaved, the modprobe will fail and all is well.

Notes:

- Swaps the ranking of cache_chain_sem and lock_cpu_hotplug().  Doesn't seem
  important.

Acked-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 7fd93cf3
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