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From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "Hartmut Holz" <hartmut.holz@arcor.de>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Uptime again?
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:46:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002801c1a76b$623033f0$010411ac@local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0201261935330.32617-100000@imladris.surriel.com> <3C54546C.0@arcor.de>

From: "Hartmut Holz" <hartmut.holz@arcor.de>
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > The fact that lavrec crashes the machine while Xawtv works
> > suggests a device driver may be corrupting memory somewhere.
> >
>
> I got a debug patch from Manfred Spraul to debug slab.c.

poisoning of fields of 'struct page', slab poisoning, even of objects with constructors.
Same patch as:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=linux.kernel.3C3B6F65.F9226437%40colorfullife.com&rnum=1

> With this patch
> the machine ran for about 3 hours. No problem. I looked into slab.c and had an
> idea. What about just one CPU. So I built a new Kernel with just one CPU.
> Result: 1 CPU 1 Minute - 2 CPU 20 Minutes. I aspected a different result.
> In my opinion the whole thing has something to do with slab, SMP and threads.
>
Not with slab itself, probably with a slab user. Someone uses a stale pointer.

What do you means with one cpu? Did you boot a SMP kernel with "nosmp" on the command line, or did you make a kernel without
CONFIG_SMP?

--
    Manfred


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-27 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-25 18:50 Uptime again? Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-25 21:24 ` jjs
2002-01-26 17:18 ` Hartmut Holz
2002-01-26 17:22   ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-26 21:32     ` Hartmut Holz
2002-01-26 21:40       ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-27 19:26         ` Hartmut Holz
2002-01-27 19:46           ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2002-01-27 22:27             ` Hartmut Holz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-25 21:32 Greg Boyce

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