linux-kernel - Re: Kernel crash after using new Intel NIC (igb)

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:32:51 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@...monizer.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	StuStaNet Vorstand <vorstand@...sta.mhn.de>
Subject: Re: Kernel crash after using new Intel NIC (igb)

Le mercredi 27 avril 2011 à 06:24 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> We had similar reports in the past that disappeared when adding
> "slab_nomerge" to boot parameters. We suspect a memory corruption from
> another part of kernel on 64bytes kmemcache objects.
> 
> In 2.6.37, inetpeer code uses 64bytes objects. Using slab_nomerge and
> SLUB allocator (as you already do), makes sure inetpeer kmemcache wont
> be shared by other 64bytes objects in kernel.
> 

Of course, the right option name is slub_nomerge

vi +2293 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

        slub_nomerge    [MM, SLUB]
                        Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
                        necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
                        allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
                        merging on their own.
                        For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.



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