From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qc0-f171.google.com (mail-qc0-f171.google.com [209.85.216.171]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B33E6B0038 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:04:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qcay5 with SMTP id y5so11094708qca.1 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from userp1040.oracle.com (userp1040.oracle.com. [156.151.31.81]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d109si5103058qge.52.2015.03.20.12.04.56 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <550C6F53.5090707@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:04:51 -0600 From: David Ahern MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 4.0.0-rc4: panic in free_block References: <550C37C9.2060200@oracle.com> <550C5078.8040402@oracle.com> <550C6151.8070803@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-mm , "David S. Miller" , LKML , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On 3/20/15 12:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > SLUB should definitely be considered a stable allocator. It's the > default allocator for at least Fedora, and that presumably means all > of Redhat. > > SuSE seems to use SLAB still, though, so it must be getting lots of > testing on x86 too. > > Did you test with SLUB? Does it work there? sorry, forgot to add that detail in the last response: it works fine. No panics at all with SLUB. David -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org