Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 17:23:35 EST



* Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > what's the best way to artificially increase the size of the allocated
> > per cpu area? (say double it)
>
> Add a big per cpu declaration?
>
> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, dummy)[10000];

what's the guarantee that it's at the end of the section? I'd like to
pad the per cpu areas at their end. (doubling their size is a good way
to achieve that)

Ingo
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