Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2007 15:11:48 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: slab hang on boot | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:36:42 +0300 (EEST)
> Sorry, I could not test the parport patch yet - I did git upgrade as of > yesterday and the kernel hangs on boot. boot -p reveals the following > slab panic:
Please enable SLUB to work around this for now, SLAB wants LARGE_ALLOCS enabled when it really shouldn't require that for a 512K or 1MB SLAB when PAGE_SIZE==8192 :-(
> kmem_cache_create: Early error in slab tsb_512KB > kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2165!
Christoph, this is why I had to have LARGE_ALLOCS enabled on sparc64 all this time, for that MAX_OBJ_ORDER logic in mm/slab.c in order to get 512K and 1MB slab caches usable.
This inconsistency is painful for platforms. If I enable LARGE_ALLOCS on sparc64 then SLAB works but it's a total waste for SLUB.
Right now if I enable LARGE_ALLOCS, SLUB will break again due to that KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH bug we fixed the other week, Christophe can you at least push that fix to Linus if you haven't already?
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