From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261628AbULaK4F (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:56:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261845AbULaK4F (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:56:05 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:33549 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261628AbULaK4B (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:56:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:55:53 +0000 From: Russell King To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Herbert Poetzl , "Georg C. F. Greve" , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard Message-ID: <20041231105553.C29868@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Herbert Poetzl , "Georg C. F. Greve" , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox References: <20041231041621.GA14321@mail.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@osdl.org on Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:53:45PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:53:45PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > > maybe this can provide more information (let me know if > > you need an ASCII version, I'll transcribe it by hand then) > > Same thing. Some slab corruption causing problems at free time. The > real problem happened much earlier, so the oops isn't all that useful. > What would be useful is if you can pinpoint what triggers it and/or when > it started happening.. 2.6.10-rc3 maybe... depending on whether you want to look at this oops with a proprietary iSCSI module loaded... http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2004-December/026159.html http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2004-December/026164.html However, the fact that this person can't reproduce the slab corruption without this iSCSI module loaded may be telling, but since you're also chasing such a problem, it may not have anything to do with their iSCSI stuff. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core