From: Michael Buesch <mb-fseUSCV1ubazQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
To: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg-bbCR+/B0CizivPeTLB3BmA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez"
<mcgrof-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
"Michael Wu" <flamingice-R9e9/4HEdknk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>,
linux-wireless
<linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
"John W. Linville"
<linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
"Johannes Berg"
<johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
"Michael Chan" <mchan-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
"Christoph Lameter" <clameter-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Reproducible oops with lockdep on count_matching_names()
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:03:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711051403.39479.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020711050423r7a1f0e55g36c8c5ad29bfc700-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
On Monday 05 November 2007 13:23:50 Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 21:06 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Who is responsible for slab btw?
> > I mean, someone should be interested in getting this bug fixed. :)
> > When using slab I see random corruptions. I think related to rmmod, but
> > I'm not sure. I don't see this with slub.
>
> Is CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled? Usually these kind of random corruptions
> are caused by someone passing a bad pointer to kfree() or
> kmem_cache_free().
Yeah.
What I also saw was random "one-bit-errors" once and then on rmmod of modules.
I have absolutely no idea how they were caused, though (I read the freeing
codes of the stuff hundreds of times). I don't have any of the oops messages
anymore.
But I do _not_ see this behaviour with slub anymore.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <200711011926.07641.flamingice@sourmilk.net>
[not found] ` <1194001120.27652.353.camel@twins>
2007-11-03 19:58 ` RFC: Reproducible oops with lockdep on count_matching_names() Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <43e72e890711031258g4ccd9cd0hc4520e9473f6ce49-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-03 20:06 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <200711032106.56569.mb-fseUSCV1ubazQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-05 12:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-05 12:23 ` Pekka Enberg
[not found] ` <84144f020711050423r7a1f0e55g36c8c5ad29bfc700-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-05 13:03 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
[not found] ` <200711051403.39479.mb-fseUSCV1ubazQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-05 13:56 ` Pekka Enberg
[not found] ` <84144f020711050556m6675ea90g1b6c8054a3940ec0-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-05 14:26 ` Michael Buesch
2007-11-05 18:47 ` Christoph Lameter
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