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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: bug: slab corruption (net backend?)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:35:14 +0200
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> One thing to check is what the underlying pfn and/or mfn is for the 
> relevant slabs(s) which could point to an allocation issue. 

Looks like xen allocates via kmem_cache_alloc() and releases via
kfree(), which is illegal according to a comment in mm/slab.c

Seems to work nevertheless, but maybe it's pure luck and we'll
hit a bug sooner or later.  I'll try fix this and see if the
problem goes away then ...

  Gerd

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panic("it works"); /* avoid being flooded with debug messages */