On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:55:54 +0200 mhocko <mho...@suse.de> wrote: > On 2016-06-10 11:50, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > Hello, > > > > forked from http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=146553910928716&w=2 > > > > new_slab()->BUG->die()->exit_signals() can be called from atomic > > context: local IRQs disabled in slab_alloc(). > > I have sent a patch to drop the BUG() from that path today. It > is just too aggressive way to react to a non-critical bug. > See > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465548200-11384-2-git-send-email-mho...@kernel.org
Doesn't this simply mean that Sergey's workload will blurt a pr_warn() rather than a BUG()? That still needs fixing. Confused.
