From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:30:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub In-Reply-To: <20070503082716.GE19966@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501125559.9ab42896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070503011515.0d89082b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070503082716.GE19966@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , haveblue@ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 3 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > I've seen this crash in flush_old_exec() before. ISTR it being due to > slub vs. pagetable alignment or something on that order. >>From from other discussion regarding SLAB: It may be necessary for powerpc to set the default alignment to 8 bytes on 32 bit powerpc because it requires that alignemnt for 64 bit value. SLUB will *not* disable debugging like SLAB if you do that. -- 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