Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:53:28 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: 2.2.x crashes |
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Hi,
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:44:39 +0100, Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk> said:
>> What's more useful to know is the function that called kfree. It should >> be on the call trace line of the oops log.
> Unfortunately, I expect what's happened is that something trashed the slab > allocator's internal data structures a while before, and the kfree() oops is > just a side effect of this.
That is one possibility. The other possibilities are that we are trying to free something twice, or that we're following a field from an already-freed structure, in which cases the stack trace is enormously useful.
--Stephen
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