Re: WARNING: at mm/slub.c:3357, kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3413

From: Markus Trippelsdorf
Date: Mon Nov 21 2011 - 02:29:42 EST


On 2011.11.21 at 08:44 +0800, Alex,Shi wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 20:02 +0800, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On 2011.11.18 at 09:54 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > On 2011.11.18 at 16:43 +0800, Alex,Shi wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The dirty flag comes from a bunch of unrelated xfs patches from Christoph, that
> > > > > > I'm testing right now.
> > > >
> > > > Where is the xfs patchset? I am wondering if it is due to slub code.
> >
> > I begin to wonder if this might be the result of a compiler bug.
> > The kernel in question was compiled with gcc version 4.7.0 20111117. And
> > there was commit to the gcc repository today that looks suspicious:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revision&revision=181466
> >
>
> Tell us if it is still there and you can reproduce it.

The issue wasn't easily reproducible in the first place. I will build my
kernels with a more stable gcc version for the next days and see if I
can still reproduce the problem. (It didn't show up in the last few days
of testing).

--
Markus
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