Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:41:43PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:37:13 -0600
> 
> > No, the usual strategy for debugging problems -outside- SLOB is to
> > switch to another allocator with more extensive debugging facilities.
> 
> Ok, so the thing we still can do is do a dump_stack() at the
> list debugging assertion trigger points.

It's also pretty easy to add some debugging code to make SLOB walk all
its lists at alloc/free time.

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