Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:08:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9 |
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> and the bug pattern seems to be memory corruption - not memory > exhaustion.
SLUB does not do a memory allocation where it fails here but simply accesses per cpu information that is expected to be already zeroed.
> i.e. we allocated RAM but it got corrupted after allocation.
In some situations we are screwing up the per cpu data handling on 32 bit x86? Adding Mike. This looks like the per cpu area overlaps with something else?
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