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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Alex Villacís Lasso" <a_villacis@palosanto.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Memory corruption warnings triggered by repeated slabinfo -v
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:55:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324155340.3323.23.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EECF64B.1020409@palosanto.com>

Le samedi 17 dA(C)cembre 2011 A  15:06 -0500, Alex VillacA-s Lasso a A(C)crit :
> El 16/12/11 22:28, Eric Dumazet escribiA3:
> > Le vendredi 16 dA(C)cembre 2011 A  21:14 -0500, Alex VillacA-s Lasso a
> > A(C)crit :
> >> I am running Fedora 16 x86_64 and testing vanilla kernel 3.2-rc5. I
> >> wanted to test the slabinfo program, so I wrote a small shell script
> >> slabinfo-forever.sh (attached) that invokes slabinfo -v every 3 seconds.
> >> Just by doing this, I was able to trigger several memory validation
> >> warnings, attached in this message. The reason I wanted to test slabinfo
> >> is because back when I was running Fedora 14, I had some video issues
> >> that seemed consistent with memory corruption. I tried to submit a
> >> kernel bug at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42312 just
> >> before the kernel.org hack issue, but bugzilla.kernel.org never came up
> >> after that.
> > Problem is known and fixes were submitted.
> >
> >
> Still happening in 3.2-rc6. The dmesg output is attached.
> 
> What are the git commits of the fixes? Are they scheduled to go into 3.2 
> stable?

Fixes were submitted but not yet accepted in mainline.



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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-17 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-17  2:14 Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-12-17  3:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-17 20:06   ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-12-17 20:55     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
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2011-12-16  3:44 Alex Villacís Lasso

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