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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] slub crashes with recent -git
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:30:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070720193008.GA4190@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184952874.12655.4.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu>


* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:42 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Linus, Christoph,
> > 
> > recent slub commits in -git cause this bootup crash:
> > 
> >  Freeing unused kernel memory: 324k freed
> >  Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1294k
> 
> Just curious, are the crashes even possible in 2.6.22.1? (I see the 
> same patchable code snippet in the source). Just wondering if I should 
> also apply this to 2.6.21.1-rt4...

no, i think they are unique to .23, due to the recent stricter behavior 
introduced for zero-sized allocs.

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-20 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-19 19:42 [patch] slub crashes with recent -git Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 20:24   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 20:25   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20  1:23     ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-23 20:59     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-20 17:34 ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2007-07-20 19:30   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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