Re: kmem_cache_alloc panic in 3.10+

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 23:05 -0800, dormando wrote:
>
>> We hit the routing code fairly hard. Any hints for what to look at or how
>> to instrument it? Or if it's fixed already? It's a real pain to iterate
>> since it takes ~30 days to crash, usually. Sometimes.

sounds like adding mdelay() didn't help to crash it sooner. Then I don't
see how my dst fix was causing it to crash more often. Something odd.
fyi just to check it more thoroughly I've been running with mdelay()
and config_slub_debug_on for a week without issues.

> I really wonder... it looks like a possible in SLUB. (might be already
> fixed)
>
> Could you try using SLAB instead ?

try config_slub_debug_on=y ? it should catch double free and other things.
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