From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751481AbbCTTE7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:04:59 -0400 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:41776 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750777AbbCTTE5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:04:57 -0400 Message-ID: <550C6F53.5090707@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:04:51 -0600 From: David Ahern User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: linux-mm , "David S. Miller" , LKML , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4.0.0-rc4: panic in free_block References: <550C37C9.2060200@oracle.com> <550C5078.8040402@oracle.com> <550C6151.8070803@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3/20/15 12:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > SLUB should definitely be considered a stable allocator. It's the > default allocator for at least Fedora, and that presumably means all > of Redhat. > > SuSE seems to use SLAB still, though, so it must be getting lots of > testing on x86 too. > > Did you test with SLUB? Does it work there? sorry, forgot to add that detail in the last response: it works fine. No panics at all with SLUB. David