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SubjectRe: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9
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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