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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: memory corruptor in .18rc1-git
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:30:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060713223029.GD3371@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060713152425.86412ea3.akpm@osdl.org>

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:24:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

 > > I've up'd the speed of the serial console, in the hope that more chars
 > > make it over the wire before reboot should this happen again.
 > 
 > Are you using SMP?  We have a known slab locking bug.

Yes, dual EM64T's with HT.

 > There have been a couple of slab.c patches committed today, but neither of
 > them appear to actually fix the bug.
 > 
 > The below should fix it, and testing this (disable lockdep) would be
 > useful.

I can give it a shot, but as it takes a while for this to manifest, I may
not be able to say for certain whether it fixes it or not.

		Dave
 
-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-13 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-13 22:13 memory corruptor in .18rc1-git Dave Jones
2006-07-13 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-13 22:30   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-07-14  4:12     ` Willy Tarreau
2006-07-14  4:20       ` Dave Jones
2006-07-14  4:25         ` Willy Tarreau
2006-07-14  4:31           ` Dave Jones
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-15 19:54 Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-15 20:04 ` Dave Jones

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