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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Yann Dupont <Yann.Dupont@univ-nantes.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.37 : oops in cleanup_once
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:14:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1300108464.3423.1.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7DF1A3.6020501@univ-nantes.fr>

Le lundi 14 mars 2011 à 11:44 +0100, Yann Dupont a écrit :
> Le 02/02/2011 16:08, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> 
> 
> > I suspect a mem corruption from another layer (not inetpeer)
> >
> > Unfortunately many kmem caches share the "64 bytes" cache.
> >
> > Could you please add "slub_nomerge" on your boot command ?
> >
> ...
> 
> >
> >> -Is there a very severe impact on performance ?
> >>
> > not at all
> >
> Maybe there is an impact after all : since then, we don't have problems 
> anymore !
> 
> linkwood:~# uptime
>   11:42:03 up 39 days, 17:08,  3 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.05
> 
> So... could slub_nomerge hide or simply avoid the problem ?
> Or are we just lucky this time ?
> 
> 

I would say you are lucky ;)

Not all memory corruptions are noticed. Sometimes it touch unused parts
of memory, or some parts with no critical content.




      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-14 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4D491B8D.1000107@univ-nantes.fr>
2011-02-02 10:52 ` kernel 2.6.37 : oops in cleanup_once Eric Dumazet
2011-02-02 11:24   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-02 13:08     ` Yann Dupont
2011-02-02 14:53       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-02 15:04         ` Yann Dupont
2011-02-02 15:08           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-02 17:59             ` Yann Dupont
2011-03-14 10:44             ` Yann Dupont
2011-03-14 13:14               ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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