Re: Re: Re: [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)

From: pinotj
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 18:47:47 EST





----Message d'origine----
>Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:36:33 -0800 (PST)
>De: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
>A: pinotj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Copie à: manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>,
>Sujet: Re: Re: [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)
>
>
>
>On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 pinotj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> I triggered the slab oops with a very small kernel -test11 (~700KB):
>
>The only thing that looks at _all_ likely to explain the problem is
>
>> CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
>
>since there aren't that many XFS users I know of. It's also now the only
>thing that uses buffer heads in your config, so..
>
>I assume it's not an option to try another filesystem on this setup, but
>it's entirely possible that the 2.6.x buffer-head removal has impacted XFS
>negatively - although I'm a bit surprised at how easily you seem to show
>problems, since XFS actually has active maintenance.
[...]

Yes, I use XFS with my LFS but I got some problem with my slack on ext3 too. Usually under X and settings are not so good for debugging so I didn't made bug reports (nvidia driver too). I will try to confirm the problem under ext3.

Jerome

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/