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From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLUB: clear c->freelist in __slab_alloc()/load_freelist:/SlabDebug path
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:54:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <482B2752.2090600@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805141043200.15374@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On May. 14, 2008, 10:44 -0700, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008, Benny Halevy wrote:
> 
>>> But for debug pages, we never load c->page->freelist to c->freelist so
>>> it should always be NULL.
>> Hmm, I see.  Then it might have got corrupted...
>> I'll keep looking for the root cause.
> 
> Correct.

Yeah, I've moved to SLAB and the mem corruption now pops up at a different
place.

> 
>>> How did you make SLUB hit the debug path since you have
>>> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON disabled?
> 
> I guess he passed slub_debug on the kernel command line.
> 

I did not.

I probably have misunderstood how the slub debugging infrastructure works
and did not execute the debug path at all.

Thanks for your help!

Benny

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-14 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 20:32 [PATCH] SLUB: clear c->freelist in __slab_alloc()/load_freelist:/SlabDebug path Benny Halevy
2008-05-13  6:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-13 18:40 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-13 19:34   ` Benny Halevy
2008-05-14 17:44     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 17:54       ` Benny Halevy [this message]
2008-05-14 17:58         ` Christoph Lameter

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