Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:26:41 +1100 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray) |
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:49:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Nathan - did you see the two debug patches I sent out that caught this? > > One adds checks to "atomic_dec_and_test()" to verify that the count never > goes negative. The other basically disables all the slab code, and > replaces them with straight page allocations, and that together with > CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC helps find bad behaviour (touching allocations > after they are free'd etc). >
Yep - I'll remove that PageSlab use in there, and start testing with these too.
thanks.
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