linux-kernel - Re: Redzone overwritten with CONFIG

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805271104100.18436@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 May 2008 11:04:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Redzone overwritten with CONFIG_SECURITY

On Tue, 27 May 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Then it's likely that we corrupt hugetlbfs_inode_cachep because of
> SLUB merging and the real problem is somewhere else. Can you also try
> passing 'slub_nomerge" as a kernel parameter with SLUB?

Enabling Redzone disables merging. So its unrelated to merging.
 
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