Re: [BUG] 2.6.3 Slab corruption: errors are triggered when memoryexceeds 2.5GB (correction)
From: Manfred Spraul
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 12:43:48 EST
Andrew Morton wrote:
Actually, it's often caused by someone doing atomic_dec_and_test() against
something which was already freed.
The previous user is always kfree_skbmem - I would be surprised if there
are atomic operations against the skb data area.
Darren, could you try the latest bk snapshot? Linus yesterday merged a
patch that hexdumps the affected bytes. We must try to find a pattern -
always same offset into a page, always same physical address, always
same offset into the object, etc.
--
Manfred
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