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SubjectRe: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9

* 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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