Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:27:11 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9 |
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* Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> Hmmm... If one enables CONFIG_X86_PAE (even with no highmem) then > everything is fine. For PAE to be enabled some other things also fall > by the wayside. Diff to your failing config follows. Will try to > minimize the diff even further:
... in the thread i've already explained that it's because on PAE we use 1GB sparse chunks (shift 30) which masks the bug.
(on PAE we cannot go below a shift of 29 due to shortage of page->flags)
Ingo
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