From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.20.3: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:597 try#2 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:00:06 -0800 Message-ID: <20070318220006.7230fd58.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <45FDDA8E.8030100@domdv.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:43610 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965638AbXCSGA2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:00:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <45FDDA8E.8030100@domdv.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Steinmetz Cc: Linux Kernel Mailinglist , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:34:22 +0100 Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > As posted to lkml and linux-scsi on 2007-03-15 without reply, see > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117395128412313&w=2 for original post: Repeatable oops in our most recently released kernel, nobody bothers to reply. > It is not so nice when one can write backup tapes but the tapes cannot > be read. I don't know if memory management or the st driver is the > culprit, but this is a not so nice situation. > > I can't even say if the tapes are written correctly as I can't read them > (one does not reboot production machines back to 2.4.x just to try to > read a backup tape - I don't have 2.6.x older than 2.6.20 on these > machines). BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page)); that's seriously screwed up. Do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled? If not, please enable it and retest.