linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390

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Message-ID: <20090917122141.GB5041@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:21:41 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	npiggin@...e.de, sachinp@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:16:21PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:12 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > Ok, I just wanted to debug this on s390. But... the bug seems to have
> > disappeared.
> > I pulled in
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git slqb/core
> > 
> > and tried defconfig (+SLQB) as well as allyesconfig (+SLQB). Both started and
> > didn't show the crash-before-console-is-active which went away when switching
> > to a different allocator.
> > So the s390 restriction seems to be resolved. Don't know why...
> 
> IIRC, this is the only bug fix that was merged after your report:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ff61c4950125b09b5e5a83d48a6c81827e9d67ab

Still works even if I revert that patch. Probably something else interfered.
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