Re: [patch] slub crashes with recent -git

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jul 20 2007 - 15:30:44 EST



* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:42 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Linus, Christoph,
> >
> > recent slub commits in -git cause this bootup crash:
> >
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 324k freed
> > Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1294k
>
> Just curious, are the crashes even possible in 2.6.22.1? (I see the
> same patchable code snippet in the source). Just wondering if I should
> also apply this to 2.6.21.1-rt4...

no, i think they are unique to .23, due to the recent stricter behavior
introduced for zero-sized allocs.

Ingo
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