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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] Lockdep recursive locking in kmem_cache_free
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On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> If you need more info, I can add debugs. It happens every bootup.

Could you tell me why _spin_lock and _spin_unlock seem 
to be calling into the slab allocator? Also what is child_rip()? Cannot 
find that function upstream.

There should be no lock recursion here because we are talking about alien 
cache arrays on different nodes.