linux-kernel - Re: 4.0.0-rc4: panic in free

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Message-ID: <550C6F53.5090707@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:04:51 -0600
From:	David Ahern <david.ahern@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.0.0-rc4: panic in free_block

On 3/20/15 12:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> SLUB should definitely be considered a stable allocator.  It's the
> default allocator for at least Fedora, and that presumably means all
> of Redhat.
>
> SuSE seems to use SLAB still, though, so it must be getting lots of
> testing on x86 too.
>
> Did you test with SLUB? Does it work there?

sorry, forgot to add that detail in the last response: it works fine. No 
panics at all with SLUB.

David
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