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From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: pinotj@club-internet.fr, manfred@colorfullife.com, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Oops]  i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:26:41 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031204212641.GC567@frodo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312041035530.6638@home.osdl.org>

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.

-- 
Nathan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-04 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-04 18:27 [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray) pinotj
2003-12-04 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-04 19:09   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-04 21:21     ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-05  7:14       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-05  9:34         ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-05 14:22           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-05  3:00     ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-05  6:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-04 19:19   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-04 21:26   ` Nathan Scott [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-09  0:57 pinotj
2003-12-09  2:03 ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-09  7:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-09 23:58     ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-12 19:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-12 20:07         ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-03 23:06 pinotj
2003-12-03 23:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-29 17:41 pinotj
2003-12-02  0:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-02  1:37   ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-02  6:44     ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-02 18:05       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 20:05         ` Nathan Scott
2003-11-27 18:42 pinotj
2003-11-27 18:55 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-02  1:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-25 17:30 pinotj
2003-11-25 22:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-27 18:07   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-11-22  7:47 Re: " pinotj
2003-11-22 10:55 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-11-21 18:12 pinotj
2003-11-21 18:58 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-11-20  1:50 pinotj
2003-11-20  2:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-19 18:19 pinotj
2003-11-20  1:07 ` Andrew Morton

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