Re: Happy v2.6.28

From: Hans Lambrechts
Date: Tue Dec 30 2008 - 02:42:59 EST




On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Hi Hans,
>
> On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 13:45 +0100, Hans Lambrechts wrote:
> > > Looks like slab corruption. Can we have your .config, please? I'm
> > > cc'ing netdev as the oops happens in kmem_cache_alloc() so the
> > > networking code is a prime suspect of the corrupting kmem_cache_free()
> > > call (although the bug might be elsewhere as well).
>
> Can you boot the kernel with "slub_debug slub_nomerge" passed as kernel
> parameters and try to reproduce the oops, please? Maybe we can get more
> information on the bug.
>
> Alternatively, you can do a git bisect to pinpoint the broken patch
> between -rc9 and -final.
>
> Pekka
>


Hi Pekka,

after the first oops I've decided to try 2.6.28 again so I could send
you more information. I'm running 2.6.28 now for a few days with several
restarts and no more oops.
This seems a very rare to hit bug or my 6yo box is almost end of life.

Hans
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