Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:16:18 -0700 | From | Mike Travis <> | Subject | Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9 |
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Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> and the bug pattern seems to be memory corruption - not memory >> exhaustion. > > SLUB does not do a memory allocation where it fails here but simply > accesses per cpu information that is expected to be already zeroed. > >> i.e. we allocated RAM but it got corrupted after allocation. > > In some situations we are screwing up the per cpu data handling on > 32 bit x86? Adding Mike. This looks like the per cpu area overlaps with > something else? > >
I'll certainly take a look...
-Mike
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