From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
"Michael Wu" <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Reproducible oops with lockdep on count_matching_names()
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:03:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711051403.39479.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020711050423r7a1f0e55g36c8c5ad29bfc700@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 05 November 2007 13:23:50 Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 21:06 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Who is responsible for slab btw?
> > I mean, someone should be interested in getting this bug fixed. :)
> > When using slab I see random corruptions. I think related to rmmod, but
> > I'm not sure. I don't see this with slub.
>
> Is CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled? Usually these kind of random corruptions
> are caused by someone passing a bad pointer to kfree() or
> kmem_cache_free().
Yeah.
What I also saw was random "one-bit-errors" once and then on rmmod of modules.
I have absolutely no idea how they were caused, though (I read the freeing
codes of the stuff hundreds of times). I don't have any of the oops messages
anymore.
But I do _not_ see this behaviour with slub anymore.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 19:17 RFC: Reproducible oops with lockdep on count_matching_names() Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-11-01 19:49 ` John W. Linville
2007-11-01 21:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-11-01 23:26 ` Michael Wu
2007-11-02 10:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-03 19:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-11-03 20:06 ` Michael Buesch
2007-11-05 12:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-05 12:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-11-05 13:03 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-11-05 13:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-11-05 14:26 ` Michael Buesch
2007-11-05 18:47 ` Christoph Lameter
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