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Subject: Re: 2.6.5-rc1-mm2
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes () sgi ! com>
Date: 2004-03-31 23:58:28
Message-ID: 200403311558.28178.jbarnes () sgi ! com
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On Wednesday 31 March 2004 3:56 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:06 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > So are we to assume that this is the offending process? That the
> > > periodic slab reaping code has screwed up?
> >
> > It looks like it. Disabling the slab cache reaping function allows it to
> > boot again.
>
> I suspect that the reap timer is innocent and what we have is simply
> scribbled-on slab metadata. Which means it could be anything at all.
That's what I thought too, I'm trying to track down exactly which slab is
having problems now.
>
> One last thing: could you please stick a
>
> printk(KERN_EMERG "destroying slab %s\n", cachep->name);
I'm already booting up something similar...
> at the start of slab_destroy()? That'll help narrow it down.
>
> Could you also punt me over the .config? If I can make it happen, the
> binary search will find it. But it probably won't happen here.
I'm using sn2_defconfig in arch/ia64/configs.
Thanks,
Jesse
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