linux-kernel - Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804151628420.5108@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:32:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Yinghai.Lu@....com,
	apw@...dowen.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> ... in the thread i've already explained that it's because on PAE we use 
> 1GB sparse chunks (shift 30) which masks the bug.

Ahh. Right. That is the same situation as HIGHMEM_64G. I was able to 
enable PAE without HIGHMEM_64G. Thought that would keep things as is.
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