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From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: BUG in free_block (tainted)
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:42:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A9ECD2.8030801@simon.arlott.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020808181437n34f3a339j3392ccccfdfd60f9@mail.gmail.com>

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On 18/08/08 22:37, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> wrote:
>> http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/1170/1005548cp9.jpg
>>
>> 2.6.27-rc3 09873-gb08c7f5
>>
>> (Tainted with fglrx, but X hadn't been run...)
> 
> Looks like SLAB corruption so fglrx could have caused this even if you
> just loaded the module. Do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled? If not,
> you might want to try to reproduce this with it. Of course,
> reproducing the oops without fglrx would be most helpful. :-)

In that case please disregard this completely. It's not yet happened again.

fglrx completely breaks slab in fantastic ways... I could show you my 
/proc/slabinfo... the start of it is badly corrupted - but only if X 
has been started (attached).

I might try enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, perhaps it can detect that bug...

-- 
Simon Arlott

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-18 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-18 21:28 BUG in free_block (tainted) Simon Arlott
2008-08-18 21:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-18 21:42   ` Simon Arlott [this message]
2008-08-18 21:49     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-19 13:02       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-21 10:48       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-21 10:51         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-22 15:21           ` Adrian Bunk

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