From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765250AbYDOUg1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:36:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756645AbYDOUgT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:36:19 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:53845 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756481AbYDOUgS (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:36:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4805115D.5030703@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:34:37 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Christoph Lameter , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Yinghai.Lu@sun.com, apw@shadowen.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9 References: <84144f020804110205u3d073e76lbcdd36ec293a169b@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020804110208m41414c0h2ed71b85efbb426c@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020804110211w4ae41414od24cf2de72453e13@mail.gmail.com> <20080415062534.GA9172@elte.hu> <20080415161532.GA15088@elte.hu> <20080415195430.GA23015@elte.hu> <20080415201734.GA25628@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080415201734.GA25628@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > my current guess would have been some bootmem regression/interaction > that messes up the buddy bitmaps - but i just reverted to the v2.6.24 > version of bootmem.c and that crashes too ... I know this is bit of hand-waving but have you noticed how all the interesting sparsemem changes that one would expect to have caused the breakage happened _before_ v2.6.24? So sorry for asking this again but are we 110% sure the problem does not trigger with any of the v2.6.24-rcN kernels? Pekka