Re: 4.0.0-rc4: panic in free_block

[David Ahern]

On 3/20/15 1:47 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Ahern <david.ahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:05:05 -0600
>
> > DaveM: do you mind if I submit a patch to change the default for sparc
> > to SLUB?
>
> I think we're jumping the gun about all of this, and doing anything
> with default Kconfig settings would be entirely premature until we
> know what the real bug is.

The suggestion to change to SLUB as the default was based on Linus' 
comment "SLAB is probably also almost unheard of in high-CPU
configurations, since slub has all the magical unlocked lists etc for
scalability."

> On my T4-2 I've used nothing but SLAB and haven't hit any of these
> problems.  I can't even remember the last time I turned SLUB on,
> and it's just because I'm lazy.

Interesting. With -j <64 and talking softly it completes. But -j 128 and 
higher always ends in a panic.


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