Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu May 03 2007 - 12:31:20 EST


On Thu, 3 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> I've seen this crash in flush_old_exec() before. ISTR it being due to
> slub vs. pagetable alignment or something on that order.

>From from other discussion regarding SLAB: It may be necessary for
powerpc to set the default alignment to 8 bytes on 32 bit powerpc
because it requires that alignemnt for 64 bit value. SLUB will *not*
disable debugging like SLAB if you do that.
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