Re: 2.6.14-rc1-git-now still dying in mm/slab - this time line 1849

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Sep 22 2005 - 16:48:12 EST


Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hmm. This likely has something to do with debugging code. I was unable to
> >> > reproduce this on amd64 with your config. I get another failure with
> >> > 2.6.14-rc2 on ia64 if I enable all the debugging features that you have.
> >> > The system works fine if no debugging is configured:
> >> >
> >> > kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:541!
> >> > swapper[1]: bugcheck! 0 [1]
> >>
> >> I fixed the above issue (a structure became larger than the maximum
> >> allowed by the slab allocator) and the kernel boots fine now on an 8 way
> >> ia64. Cannot reproduce the problem.
> >
> >
> > Petr can. I think we're still waiting for him to test the below (please):
>
> Sorry, I've missed that half of email completely. Yes, it seems to fix problem,
> box has currently 8 min uptime, which is 7:55 more than it survived before.

Great, thanks. Christoph, was that patch the final official version?

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