Re: NULL pointer in kmem_cache_alloc with 2.6.25-rc1

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:

> On my 16-core tigerton, kernel panic when I ran hackbench process testing. See
> below log.
> 

> Kernel panic at line 1637 in file mm/slub.c because object=c->freelist=NULL.

Hmmmm. freelist should never be NULL. Could you rerun the test and boot with 
slub_debug to make sure that there is no memory corruption?
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