From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42BA86B006A for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:29:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:29:11 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: SLUB ia64 linux-next crash bisected to 756dee75 In-Reply-To: <20100119200228.GE11010@ldl.fc.hp.com> Message-ID: References: <20100113002923.GF2985@ldl.fc.hp.com> <1263587721.20615.255.camel@useless.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20100119200228.GE11010@ldl.fc.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Alex Chiang Cc: Lee Schermerhorn , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Alex Chiang wrote: > Well, making progress (maybe?). Yes I think this is the fix. > Now we're hitting a BUG_ON(). Thats a kfree of an object not allocated with a slab allocator. Recovery is easy in such a case: Dont free the object. -- 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