Re: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:601

[Vegard Nossum]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [  527.562373]  ffffffff8043b157 0000000000200200 ffffffffa02810d4
>> ffff88001e13c600
>
> LIST_POISON2 on the stack:
>
> include/linux/poison.h:#define LIST_POISON2  ((void *) 0x00200200)

So looking at bttv source code, I wonder what the codes like these are
trying to do:

                        if (set->top->vb.queue.next)
                                list_del(&set->top->vb.queue);

Code is ancient, I'll ask Mauro.


Vegard

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