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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc1: EIP: slab_destroy+0x84/0x142
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:30:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224894630.3248.77.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081025002406.GA20024@x200.localdomain>

On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 04:24 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:29:47PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >
> >> Fault occured at slab_destroy in KVM guest kernel.
> >
> > Please switch on all SLAB debug options and rerun.
> 
> They're already on!
> 
> New knowledge: turning off just DEBUG_PAGEALLOC makes oops dissapear,
> other debugging options don't matter.

It's quite possible there's a bad interaction with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and
the slab redzone logic. The first makes allocations full pages so that
we can later unmap them and detect spurious writes to them while the
second puts a redzone in front of the page (ie potentially in lala
land).

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-25  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810232028500.3287@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-24 18:59 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24 21:38   ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 22:09     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24 23:29       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-25  0:24         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-25  0:30           ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2008-10-25  2:54           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-25  3:00             ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-25  3:20               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-26 12:30             ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-26 21:27               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-27 14:23               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-27 14:24                 ` Avi Kivity

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