Re: [2.6.25-rc2-mm1] Oops in __kmalloc

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 07:51:53 EST


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> while booting up a notebook on 32 bit, this oopses appeared on the console
> >> after ext3 fsck:
> >> http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/mem_oops/
> >>
> >> It's 2.6.25-rc2-mm1, I can't find similar reports, is this known or hardware
> >> issue (unlikely, 2.6.24.2 seems to be OK)?
> >
> > I don't recall seeing a similar report and yes, it'll be a kernel bug.
> >
> > We've fixed a few things and it could be that this will just go away in
> > next -mm. If it doesn't, a bisection search would be good, thanks.
>
> Well, next -mm is out. Could you test, Jan? [our -mm git is up-to-date]

I don't see your config but if you have CONFIG_SLUB enabled, this is
probably the same problem as:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10015

which is fixed since 2.6.25-rc2 in mainline.

Pekka
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