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From: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "matthew@wil.cx" <matthew@wil.cx>,
	"gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: slab error in verify_redzone_free() badness...
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 20:05:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090203040516.GA11835@plap4-2.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090202151852.de39952b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I'd be suspecting a bug in the caller.
> 
> Try setting CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, and use slab.c (not slub).  slab
> will perform page unmapping for those 2k-sized slabs.  I don't know
> whether slub does that.
> 
> All being well, you'll get a nice oops at the site of the improper
> reference.

Thanks for the tip...  Yeah, we're triaging this further, as it seems
to be pointing to something in the recent 'refactoring/multi-q' code
in qla2xxx...

--
av

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-03  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-29 22:55 slab error in verify_redzone_free() badness Andrew Vasquez
2009-02-02 23:18 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-03  4:05   ` Andrew Vasquez [this message]

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