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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>,
	Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org >> linux-mm" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: BUG at mm/slab.c:2990 with 2.6.33-rc5-tuxonice
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:59:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5F5794.8020302@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264539045.3536.1348.camel@calx>

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 07:39 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I hit a bug at mm/slab.c:2990 with .33-rc5.
>>> Unfortunately nothing more is available than a screen picture with a
>>> crash dump, although it is a good one.
>>> The bug was hit almost at the end of a hibernation cycle with
>>> Tux-on-Ice, while saving memory contents to an encrypted swap
>>> partition.
>>>
>>> The image is here http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/9634/mmslab.jpg (150 kb)
>>>
>>> Hopefully it is of any use for you. Please let me know if you need any
>>> more info.
>> Looks to me to be completely unrelated to TuxOnIce - at least at a first
>> glance.
>>
>> Ccing the slab allocator maintainers listed in MAINTAINERS.
> 
> Not sure if this will do us any good, it's the second oops.

Looks like slab corruption to me which is usually not a slab bug but 
caused by buggy callers. Is CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-26 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <74fd948d1001261121r7e6d03a4i75ce40705abed4e0@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-26 20:39 ` BUG at mm/slab.c:2990 with 2.6.33-rc5-tuxonice Nigel Cunningham
2010-01-26 20:50   ` Matt Mackall
2010-01-26 20:59     ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2010-01-26 21:35       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-26 21:50       ` Pedro Ribeiro
2010-01-26 23:31         ` Pedro Ribeiro
2010-01-27  8:02           ` Pekka Enberg

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