linux-kernel - Re: bug in slab.c

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:38:06 +0200
From:	Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: bug in slab.c

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:05:09AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Looks like the slab header was corrupted. If this can be reproduced then 
> you need to enable slub debugging to find the kernel function that 
> corrupts memory.

Yup, I'll try that if it happens again.

> Otherwise it could be bad memory?

Hmm, the box is relatively new, but one never knows. Ah, and it was
after I've resumed the machine from suspend-to-disk, but not right after
the start but some minutes later.

Robert
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