Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 17:58:51 EST


On 3/6/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Either revert it, or try this (TOTALLY UNTESTED!!!) patch..
>
> Don't even bother with the untested patch.
>
> > + for (gfporder = 0 ; gfporder < MAX_GFP_ORDER; gfporder++) {
>
> At a minimum, this "<" needs to be "<=".
>
> After that, it might even work. Not that I can convince me that the test
> for "offslab_limit" ever even triggers, so..
>

Ehh, it's getting pretty clear that you are looking at
2.6.16-rc5-git<latest> and I'm using -mm here, since that code is not
present in mm/slab.c in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 in anything near that form.

And since 2.6.16-rc5-git8 is not experiencing problems I'd suggest you
perhaps instead take a look at what's in -mm... That's where we need
to work (it seems) to find the bug...

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