Re: [PATCH] mm: poison struct page for ptlock

[Olof Johansson]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:28:38AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> This patch makes the ppc64 crash.  See
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/dsc02976.jpg
> 
> I don't know what the access address was (ia32 nicely tells you), but if
> it's `DAR' then we have LIST_POISON1.  Which would indicate that the slab

Yes, DAR is the faulting address on PPC. I'll submit a patch to improve
our Oops message later today unless someone beats me to it. :)


-Olof
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