From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: kernel expection generated with 2.6.21-mm1 kernel boot up
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 09:45:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178667937.14928.128.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070508162350.GM4452@austin.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 11:23 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:34:44PM +0530, Srinivasa Ds wrote:
> >
> > Looks like problem is in SLUB layer, I unmarked SLUB(CONFIG_SLUB)
> > option and now system is booting.
>
> Its been repored by others (and I can reproduce it),
> its a problem with a bad interaction with SLUB and pg_tables
> A patch flew by recetnly that would not use slub for pg_tables,
> but I don't know if that's the permanent fix.
Working on it... we'll be using __get_free_page() for the lowest level
of page tables.
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-07 11:00 kernel expection generated with 2.6.21-mm1 kernel boot up Kamalesh Babulal
2007-05-07 11:55 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-05-07 12:33 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-05-08 12:04 ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-05-08 16:23 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-05-08 23:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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