linux-kernel - Re: [S+Q3 20/23] slub: Shared cache to exploit cross cpu caching abilities.

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008171158530.21770@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:02:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [S+Q3 20/23] slub: Shared cache to exploit cross cpu caching
 abilities.

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Well yes I guess that is the result of large scale corruption that is
> reaching into the debug fields of the object.
> 
> > [   15.752467]
> > [   15.752467] INFO: 0xffff880c7e5f3ec0-0xffff880c7e5f3ec7. First byte 0x30 instead of 0xbb
> > [   15.752467] INFO: Allocated in 0xffff88087e4f11e0 age=131909211166235 cpu=2119111312 pid=-30712
> > [   15.752467] INFO: Freed in 0xffff88087e4f13f0 age=131909211165707 cpu=2119111840 pid=-30712
> > [   15.752467] INFO: Slab 0xffffea002bba4d28 objects=51 new=3 fp=0x0007000000000000 flags=0xa00000000000080
> > [   15.752467] INFO: Object 0xffff880c7e5f3eb0 @offset=3760
> > [   15.752467]
> > [   15.752467] Bytes b4 0xffff880c7e5f3ea0:  18 00 00 00 7e 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ....~...ZZZZZZZZ
> > [   15.752467]   Object 0xffff880c7e5f3eb0:  d0 0f 4f 7e 08 88 ff ff 80 10 4f 7e 08 88 ff ff .O~....O~..
> > [   15.752467]  Redzone 0xffff880c7e5f3ec0:  30 11 4f 7e 08 88 ff ff                         0.O~..
> > [   15.752467]  Padding 0xffff880c7e5f3ef8:  00 16 4f 7e 08 88 ff ff                         ..O~..
> 
> 16 bytes allocated and a pointer array much larger than that is used.
> 

Since the problem persists with and without CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON, I'd 
speculate that this is a problem with node scalability on my 4-node system 
if this boots fine for you.
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