From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:34:50 -0700 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8778] New: Ocotea board: kernel reports access of bad area during boot with DEBUG_SLAB=y Message-ID: <20070723133450.3de91b33@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070718095537.d344dc0a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070718005253.942f0464.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070718083425.GA29722@gate.ebshome.net> <1184766070.3699.2.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <20070718155940.GB29722@gate.ebshome.net> <20070718095537.d344dc0a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Eugene Surovegin , linux-mm@kvack.org, Josh Boyer , bart.vanassche@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org" , linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-ID: On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:55:37 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > hm. It should be the case that providing SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN at > kmem_cache_create() time will override slab-debugging's offsetting > of the returned addresses. That is true for SLUB but not in SLAB. SLAB has always ignored SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN when debugging is on because of the issues involved in placing the redzone values etc. Could be fun to fix. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org