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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
	Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test8-mm1
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:27:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1066778844.768.348.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310220053.13547.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:53, Thomas Schlichter wrote:

> For me the big question stays why enabling the DEBUG_* options results in a 
> corrupt cursor and the false dots on the top of each row... (with both 
> kernels)

Almost certainly due to CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB or CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
which debug memory allocations and frees.

Code that commits the usual memory bugs (use-after-free, etc.) will
quickly die with these set, whereas without them the bug might never
manifest.

	Robert Love


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-21 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-20  9:05 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-10-20 11:18 ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-20 15:32 ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 John Cherry
2003-10-20 16:11 ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-20 21:48   ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-10-20 22:01     ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-20 22:17       ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-10-20 22:30         ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-21  0:43           ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-21  0:14       ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-21  0:27         ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-10-21  0:46           ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-21  1:56             ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-10-21  2:54               ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-21  3:49               ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-10-21  8:39               ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-21 17:47               ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 James Simmons
2003-10-21 20:23                 ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Helge Hafting
2003-10-21 20:36                   ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-21 20:42                     ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 James Simmons
2003-10-21 22:53                       ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-21 23:27                         ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-10-22  2:46                           ` 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-20 19:21 ` [BUG] 2.6.0-test8-mm1 Ramón Rey Vicente
2003-10-20 20:10   ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-20 21:53     ` Ramón Rey Vicente

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