Re: [BUG] 2.6.3 Slab corruption: errors are triggered when memory exceeds 2.5GB (correction)

[Darren Williams]

Hi Manfred

With the introduction of the unused int the slab corruption
errors are not present.

Darren

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >Ah-hah.
> >
> >This should find it:
> > 
> >
> I think we should first check that skb->dataref is really the problem: 
> what about adding an unused field before the dataref? Something like
> 
> struct skb_shared_info {
> +	int		unused;
> 	atomic_t	dataref;
> 	int		debug;
> 
> If the dataref decrease causes the problem, then the affected offset should 
> change to 0x628.
> 
> --
> 	Manfred
> 
> 
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