linux-kernel - Re: kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3689!

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>
cc:	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3689!

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote:

> > We should probably make the minimum slab size dependent on
> > ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. There is no point in having smaller slabs anyways.
> > They will all have the same size.
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me.

Trouble is that ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is in bytes whereas we would need a 
shift value for KMALLOC_MIN_SHIFT.

Does the latest patch work?