Re: [Bug #14011] Kernel paging request failed in kmem_cache_alloc

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Aug 26 2009 - 17:03:22 EST


On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Matthias Dahl<ml_kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Can you reproduce the bug without the proprietary nvidia module that
> >> seems to be loaded?
> >
> > I am sorry but I forgot to test that and right now I am not very keen on
> > trying again since this is my primary machine and I had quite some fs
> > corruption (ext4 on md raid5 -> no barriers) the last times. :-( But this also
> > happened w/o Xorg ever being run during that session (though naturally the
> > nvidia kernel module was still loaded).
>
> Sure, I can understand that. The bug looks like regular slab
> corruption which could have been caused the nvidia blob. So I think
> the issue should be closed unless someone can reproduce it without the
> blob.

I've closed it as "insufficient data".

Thanks,
Rafael
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