Re: memory corruptor in .18rc1-git

Dave Jones
2006-07-13T22:30:34Z

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.