linux-kernel - Re: SLUB regression in current Linus

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105251652230.29729@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 May 2011 16:53:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SLUB regression in current Linus

On Wed, 25 May 2011, Jens Axboe wrote:

> >> I started experiencing a boot hang in 2.6.39+, and bisected it to this 
> >> change:
> > 
> > i too was seeing various instabilities and SLUB corruption in -tip testing. 
> > Every 5th randconfig kernel crashes.
> > 
> > I started testing the revert.
> 
> My test machine insta-crashes on boot. Lets please get this reverted.
> 

Linus merged a71ae47a2cbf ("slub: Fix double bit unlock in debug mode") 
that should fix the issue.
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