Re: 4.0.0-rc4: panic in free_block

[David Ahern]

On 3/20/15 10:58 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That said, SLAB is probably also almost unheard of in high-CPU
> configurations, since slub has all the magical unlocked lists etc for
> scalability. So maybe it's a generic SLAB bug, and nobody with lots of
> CPU's is testing SLAB.

Evidently, it is a well known problem internally that goes back to at 
least 2.6.39.

To this point I have not paid attention to the allocators. At what point 
is SLUB considered stable for large systems? Is 2.6.39 stable?

As for SLAB it is not clear if this is a sparc only problem. Perhaps the 
config should have a warning? It looks like SLAB is still the default 
for most arch.

DaveM: do you mind if I submit a patch to change the default for sparc 
to SLUB?

Now that the monster is unleashed, off to other problems...

Thanks,
David
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