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Christoph Lameter committed c601fd6956e
slab: Handle ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN correctly
James Hogan hit boot problems in next-20130204 on Meta:
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] kobject (4fc03980): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously wrong.
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF]
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] Call trace:
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<4000888c>] _show_stack+0x68/0x7c
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<400088b4>] _dump_stack+0x14/0x28
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40103794>] _kobject_init+0x58/0x9c
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40103810>] _kobject_create+0x38/0x64
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40103eac>] _kobject_create_and_add+0x14/0x8c
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40190ac4>] _mnt_init+0xd8/0x220
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40190508>] _vfs_caches_init+0xb0/0x160
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<401851f4>] _start_kernel+0x274/0x340
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40188424>] _metag_start_kernel+0x58/0x6c
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40000044>] __start+0x44/0x48
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF]
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] devtmpfs: initialized
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] L2 Cache: Not present
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] BUG: failure at fs/sysfs/dir.c:736/sysfs_read_ns_type()!
META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG!
META213-Thread0 DSP [Thread Exit] Thread has exited - return code = 4294967295
And bisected the problem to commit 95a05b4 ("slab: Common constants for
kmalloc boundaries").
As it turns out, a fixed KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW does not work for arches with
higher alignment requirements.
Determine KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead.
Reported-and-tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>