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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linux kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: SLUB BUG: check_slab called with interrupts enabled
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:22:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFA9E32.1080700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106161056450.3738@router.home>

On 06/16/2011 11:57 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
>> After backing them out, I got 18 hours of uptime so far.
>>
>> This could just be dumb luck, or it could be some slub vs. kswapd
>> interaction.  Or maybe I simply am not triggering the original
>> bug any more because kswapd is now doing all the work, but may
>> still be able to trigger it under more memory pressure...
>
> Could be some memory issue or stack corruption. This is a machine with ECC
> ram right?

Yes it is, 12GB of ECC memory.

Running that much without ECC is probably a bad idea :)

>> Either way, since this could still be dumb luck, I'll let you
>> guys know if/when I see a next crash :)
>
> OK.

30 hours uptime already.

Just a little beyond the "dumb luck" threshold.

However, I suspect the bug may still be there and
the fact that kswapd is doing more work may simply
be hiding it.

-- 
All rights reversed

      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-17  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-15 14:56 SLUB BUG: check_slab called with interrupts enabled Rik van Riel
2011-06-15 15:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-06-15 15:16   ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-15 15:45     ` Christoph Lameter
2011-06-15 16:24       ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-16 12:34       ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-16 15:57         ` Christoph Lameter
2011-06-17  0:22           ` Rik van Riel [this message]

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