Re: rt2800usb: memory corruption?

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun Aug 02 2009 - 02:29:21 EST


On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 07:16 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 20:21 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:55 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > > Enabled slub/pagealloc debugging. First down/rmmod said...
> >
> > I suggest that you try kmemcheck. It's very slow, but it finds memory
> > problems when they occur, not when it's too late.
> >
> > You may want to disable kmemleak and framebuffer support and make sure
> > that X doesn't start, at it will be too slow. Slub debugging might
> > conflict with kmemcheck, so it's better to disable it.
>
>
> I didn't even get as far as down/rmmod. Kmemcheck fired as soon as the
> interface came up.

Corruption seems to be SMP only. I cycled down/rmmod/modprobe a few
times with kmemcheck enabled (disables smp unfortunately), kmemcheck
didn't trigger, nor did box have a conniption.

-Mike

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