Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9

[Mike Travis]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>> and the bug pattern seems to be memory corruption - not memory 
>> exhaustion.
> 
> SLUB does not do a memory allocation where it fails here but simply 
> accesses per cpu information that is expected to be already zeroed.
> 
>> i.e. we allocated RAM but it got corrupted after allocation.
> 
> In some situations we are screwing up the per cpu data handling on 
> 32 bit x86? Adding Mike. This looks like the per cpu area overlaps with 
> something else?
> 
> 

I'll certainly take a look...

-Mike
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