Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 13:19:03 EST


On Monday, 21 of April 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 04/21/2008 06:54 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Jiri - could you also confirm whether you are usign SLUB (which is not
> > necessarily at all indicative of a SLUB bug itself - it's just that SLAB
> > won't ever even merge different allocations of the same size into the same
> > buckets, so if it's a cross-slab corruption, you'd simply never see it
> > with SLAB).
>
> Yeah, I'm using slub. Going to boot to slub_debug.
>
> Thanks so far.
>
> BTW. I haven't see this without suspend/resume cycle, do you, Rafael?

Well, I've seen it only once so far. :-)

> It doesn't mean anything, since it needs longer time to trigger, but anyway,
> it might be a clue.

I think we need some more data anyway.

Thanks,
Rafael
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