Re: memory corruptor in .18rc1-git

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:24:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

 > > I've up'd the speed of the serial console, in the hope that more chars
 > > make it over the wire before reboot should this happen again.
 > 
 > Are you using SMP?  We have a known slab locking bug.

Yes, dual EM64T's with HT.

 > There have been a couple of slab.c patches committed today, but neither of
 > them appear to actually fix the bug.
 > 
 > The below should fix it, and testing this (disable lockdep) would be
 > useful.

I can give it a shot, but as it takes a while for this to manifest, I may
not be able to say for certain whether it fixes it or not.

		Dave
 
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