Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 17:42:58 EST


On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> btw., as i progress with that bisection effort, i triggered new crash
> patterns, which lappen later during bootup:

It may help to run with slub_debug (or CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON) then to
detect the corruption as early as possible. Only works if you get by
kmem_cache_init() though. Should give us some informative dumps of what is
exactly corrupted if it hits a slab object.
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