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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
> @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ SECTIONS
>  	__per_cpu_start = .;
>  	*(.data.percpu)
>  	*(.data.percpu.shared_aligned)
> +	. = . + 65536;
>  	__per_cpu_end = .;
>    }
>    . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);

this seems to have the intended effect of +0x10000 padding at the end of 
the percpu area:

 c0b927d0 D per_cpu__cpu_info
 c0b92880 d per_cpu__runqueues
 c0ba2d00 D __per_cpu_end
 c0ba3000 B __bss_start

it still crashes though, with an very similar crash pattern to the 
previous ones.

	Ingo

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