netdev - Re: Happy v2.6.28

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812300835300.3744@server.home.lan>
Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:42:34 +0100 (CET)
From:	Hans Lambrechts <hans.lambrechts@...net.be>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Hans Lambrechts <hans.lambrechts@...net.be>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Happy v2.6.28



On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Hi Hans,
> 
> On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 13:45 +0100, Hans Lambrechts wrote:
> > > Looks like slab corruption. Can we have your .config, please? I'm
> > > cc'ing netdev as the oops happens in kmem_cache_alloc() so the
> > > networking code is a prime suspect of the corrupting kmem_cache_free()
> > > call (although the bug might be elsewhere as well).
> 
> Can you boot the kernel with "slub_debug slub_nomerge" passed as kernel
> parameters and try to reproduce the oops, please? Maybe we can get more
> information on the bug.
> 
> Alternatively, you can do a git bisect to pinpoint the broken patch
> between -rc9 and -final.
> 
> 		Pekka
> 


Hi Pekka,

after the first oops I've decided to try 2.6.28 again so I could send 
you more information. I'm running 2.6.28 now for a few days with several 
restarts and no more oops.
This seems a very rare to hit bug or my 6yo box is almost end of life.

	Hans
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