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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hmmm... If one enables CONFIG_X86_PAE (even with no highmem) then 
> everything is fine. For PAE to be enabled some other things also fall 
> by the wayside. Diff to your failing config follows. Will try to 
> minimize the diff even further:

... in the thread i've already explained that it's because on PAE we use 
1GB sparse chunks (shift 30) which masks the bug.

(on PAE we cannot go below a shift of 29 due to shortage of page->flags)

	Ingo
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