linux-kernel - Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2103!"

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Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:05:44 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	"Mel Gorman" <mel@....ul.ie>, "Nick Piggin" <npiggin@...e.de>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2103!"

Hi Ingo.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>  but ... as i said it in my report, this is a regression since v2.6.24 -
>  v2.6.24 (and a whole bunch of commits since then, i listed the IDs)
>  booted up fine. The commit ID you mention is: v2.6.23-4345-g523b945, way
>  earlier than the good commit IDs.
>
>  so this is a recent regression.

Right. Then you probably want to look into any changes in arch/x86/
related to setting up the zonelists. I'm fairly certain this is not a
slab bug and I don't see any recent changes to the page allocator
either that would explain this.
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