Re: 2.4.26 intermittent kernel bug on boot.

[Michael Frank]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 04:37:05 +1000, Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 04:02, Michael Frank wrote:
> > kernel BUG at slab.c:1238!
>
> That's a really strange oops to see. It's testing that the GFP flags
> match the slab's flags. To get an oops there, you'd have to have a
> non-dma slab (which makes sense), but you've called the kmem_cache_alloc
> routine with a DMA flag. Line 444 of kernel/signal.c clearly doesn't do
> that! Could the args be being corrupted while being passed?

I had sometimes hangs while calibrating delay loop with earlier kernels,
Alan Cox suggested SMI screwing things up. This bug is earlier and new.

> What does a backtrace look like?

Too bad, kdb not fully init, modules not loaded, so no BT command.

Michael
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