Today's next tree fails to boot on variety of powerpc boxes (Power5, power6) Memory: 3882624k/4194304k available (8384k kernel code, 311680k reserved, 2048k data, 4285k bss, 512k init) Kernel panic - not syncing: kmem_cache_create(): failed to create slab `kmalloc' Call Trace: [c000000000a33c30] [c000000000011668] .show_stack+0x6c/0x16c (unreliable) [c000000000a33ce0] [c000000000563c8c] .panic+0x80/0x1a8 [c000000000a33d70] [c0000000001410d8] .kmem_cache_open+0x4e8/0x51c [c000000000a33e20] [c0000000007d90b8] .kmem_cache_init+0x264/0x35c [c000000000a33ee0] [c0000000007b0b68] .start_kernel+0x404/0x51c [c000000000a33f90] [c0000000000083d8] .start_here_common+0x1c/0x44 Apr 24 Next tree with same config boots fine on these boxes. SLQB is enabled in the .config. CONFIG_SLQB_ALLOCATOR=y CONFIG_SLQB=y Complete dmesg log and .config attached. -- --------------------------------- Sachin Sant IBM Linux Technology Center India Systems and Technology Labs Bangalore, India ---------------------------------