From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schmitz Subject: Re: build warnings Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:49:06 +1300 Message-ID: <4D461512.8080609@gmail.com> References: <4D44F92C.2050707@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:56097 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751986Ab1AaBtK (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:49:10 -0500 Received: by pzk35 with SMTP id 35so761759pzk.19 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:49:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Michael Schmitz , Thorsten Glaser , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Geert, >> >> Whatever the reason - the SLUB allocator either is buggy outright for m68k, >> or we run into memory pressure a lot sooner than other architectures and the >> VM subsystem needs optimizing for SLUB. >> >> I'd just replace the Debian default for the m68k kernels.... >> > > If switching from SLUB to SLAB fixes the problem, please enable > CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and bring it up on lkml/with the SLUB people. > Can do that - I'll try and collect debug data from another case I know has had trouble with SLUB. I'll probably have to build a custom kernel for them and test that on the live mail server. Fun ... :-) Cheers, Michael