linux-kernel - Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

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Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 12:34:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@...oo.com.au>,
	Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@...te.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

On Mon, 21 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> > the problem. And the earlier case that you reported was a version of SLUB 
> > that did not have the capability to switch off SLUB_DEBUG.
> 
> Are you sure?  If CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y then -rc1 and -rc2 give you the
> choice to turn it off.

Right. That went in indeed shortly before the rc1 release.

So if both had disabled SLUB_DEBUG then this could be the reason for the 
failure. However, CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG was set in the .config that was 
included when this bug was reported. So I think we still have not found 
the real problem yet.

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