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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtrace updates
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:51:00 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904062045530.4010@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904061842490.4010@localhost.localdomain>



On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure this is the tree that brings in the problem, but my wife's 
> Mac Mini won't boot any more, and it looks like some slub or percpu issue, 
> so regardless, roughly the right people are involved in the cc here 
> already.
> 
> I get odd NUL page faults or GP faults in either __kmalloc, 
> __kmalloc_track_caller or kmem_cache_alloc

Hmm. Bisected to Andrew's big chunk of merges on April 1st. Right now I 
have

 - bad: 527410ff7fc5d45fe41523c0ba061113dea22017 ("cirrusfb: GD5446 
   fixes")

 - good: 63cd885426872254e82dac2d9e13ea4f720c21dc ("ntfs: remove private 
   wrapper of endian helpers")

and all the commits in between are all from that same -mm series. Very 
interesting. 

Anyway, the SLUB errors and the per-cpu'ness of the thing seems to have 
been a false lead and irrelevant. 

Andrew, I'll continue to bisect. Looks like it might be the epoll changes 
(that's the only really 'core' thing there). Although I don't understand 
why those would make that Mac Mini unhappy, but not affect the other 
machines. So maybe I should just stop guessing until the bisection ends..

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-05 19:39 [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtrace updates Ingo Molnar
2009-04-05 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-05 20:02   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07  1:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07  3:51   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-04-07  4:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07  4:45       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07  5:02         ` Wu Fengguang
2009-04-07  5:28         ` [patch] ramfs: add support for "mode=" mount option, fix Ingo Molnar
2009-04-07  5:55           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-04-07  6:03             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-07  6:16               ` [PATCH] ramfs: fix double freeing s_fs_info on failed mount Wu Fengguang
2009-04-07  6:53                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-07  7:05                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-04-07  6:20             ` [PATCH] ramfs: add support for "mode=" mount option, fix Ingo Molnar
2009-04-07  5:30         ` [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtrace updates Wu Fengguang
2009-04-07  4:58   ` Ingo Molnar

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