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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] slub: fix kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:1950!
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:03:02 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1106121842250.31463@sister.anvils> (raw)

3.0-rc won't boot with SLUB on my PowerPC G5: kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:1950!
Bisected to 1759415e630e "slub: Remove CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL ifdeffery".

After giving myself a medal for finding the BUG on line 1950 of mm/slub.c
(it's actually the
	VM_BUG_ON((unsigned long)(&pcp1) % (2 * sizeof(pcp1)));
on line 268 of the morass that is include/linux/percpu.h)
I tried the following alignment patch and found it to work.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
---
 include/linux/slub_def.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 3.0-rc2/include/linux/slub_def.h	2011-05-29 18:42:37.077880848 -0700
+++ linux/include/linux/slub_def.h	2011-06-12 17:17:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct kmem_cache_cpu {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_STATS
 	unsigned stat[NR_SLUB_STAT_ITEMS];
 #endif
-};
+} __attribute__((aligned(2 * sizeof(long))));
 
 struct kmem_cache_node {
 	spinlock_t list_lock;	/* Protect partial list and nr_partial */

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-13  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-13  2:03 Hugh Dickins [this message]
2011-06-13 17:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-06-13 18:34   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-13 19:29     ` Christoph Lameter
2011-06-13 20:34       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-13 21:00         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14  4:51           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-14 12:18             ` Hugh Dickins

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