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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:10:40 -0500 From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> Subject: Re: Regression: ppc powerstation boot hang caused by slab initialisation code On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:32 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 18:21 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:51 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Ah, I notice you use SLAB, that's the second report of hangs with it due to > > > the changes. You can try SLUB while I'm looking, might help. > > > > Yes, switching to slub fixes it ... although given that the identified > > problem commit is a slab one, that's understandable ... > > Patch on its way (separate thread). Got it .. just compiling now; changing the allocator seems to require a rebuild of about every file. > BTW. Any reason why you don't have > IRQSTACKs ? We really need to make that not an option.... That would probably be because I got it from the original debian OS, I think. I tend to use OS provided .configs as the basis for my changes. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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