From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: system death under oom - 3.7.9
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:14:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0000013dc73c284d-29fd15db-416b-40cc-81b6-81abc5bd3c02-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKb7UviwOk9asT=WxYgDUzfm3J+tGXobroUycpoTvzOX5kkofQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> The GPF happens at +160, which is in the argument setup for the
> cmpxchg in slab_alloc_node. I think it's the call to
> get_freepointer(). There was a similar bug report a while back,
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/199, and the recommendation was to run
> with slub debugging. Is that still the case, or is there a simpler
> explanation? I can't reproduce this at will, not sure how many times
> this has happened but definitely not many.
slub debugging will help to track down the cause of the memory corruption.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-01 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-27 18:25 Ilia Mirkin
2013-03-29 15:22 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-29 16:52 ` Ilia Mirkin
2013-04-01 20:14 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2013-04-06 9:01 ` Ilia Mirkin
2013-04-06 10:03 ` Ilia Mirkin
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