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From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@fsfeurope.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:58:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hdm2lrga.fsf@reason.gnu-hamburg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0412301418521.22893@ppc970.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:23:01 -0800 (PST)")

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 || On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:23:01 -0800 (PST)
 || Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: 

 lt> Ok. This is apparently a slab cache corruption issue.

So we're one step further, it seems.


 lt> Can you compile with SLAB_DEBUG and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned on,
 lt> since that may well catch something in the act (or it may make
 lt> the machine so unusably slow that it's not funny - who knows..)

Did that last night. You are right -- it is so slow that it is no fun
at all. So I started the test run last night and went to bed. 

This morning, the machine had crashed again, but unlike the noisy
crashes, when there was output on the console, this time, with
debugging compiled in, it crashed entirely silently. There was no info
on the console and none in the syslog, it just stopped.

Anything else I can try to help?

Anyone else willing to join the slab corruption bug hunt? :)

Regards,
Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve                                 <greve@fsfeurope.org>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-31 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-30  0:31 PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard Georg C. F. Greve
2004-12-30 16:23 ` Georg C. F. Greve
     [not found]   ` <v3rda2-hjn.ln1@news.it.uc3m.es>
2004-12-30 17:53     ` Sandro Dentella
2004-12-30 19:50     ` Michael Tokarev
2004-12-30 20:54       ` berk walker
2005-01-01 13:39       ` Helge Hafting
2004-12-30 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-30 22:04   ` Georg C. F. Greve
2004-12-30 22:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-31  4:16       ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-12-31  4:53         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-31 10:55           ` Russell King
2004-12-31  9:58       ` Georg C. F. Greve [this message]
2005-01-01 20:06       ` Alan Cox
2005-01-02 20:11     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-02 20:32       ` Dave Jones
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2004-12-30 10:21 Nick Warne
2004-12-31 11:46 Manfred Spraul

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