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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc3, BUG at mm/slab.c:2989
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:59:38 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004011257470.17168@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100401175225.GA6581@fancy-poultry.org>

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Heinz Diehl wrote:

> Apr  1 18:20:33 liesel kernel: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2989!

Typical for slab metadata corruption. You need to run with debugging on.

Switch to SLUB and set SLUB_DEBUG_ON. Reboot and reproduce situation.
Check the syslog after while. SLUB will repair the situation and continue
if possible. There may not be failure.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-01 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-01 17:52 Heinz Diehl
2010-04-01 17:59 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2010-04-01 18:22   ` Heinz Diehl

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