Re: [BUG] at mm/slab.c:1235! (Version 2.6.15)

From: Sven Lauritzen
Date: Sat Jan 21 2006 - 08:20:10 EST


Hi!

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:54 +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> Indeed that's because the kernel starts reclaiming memory and attempts to
> shrink the slabs. It's just that the page we're freeing is being managed
> by the slab allocator and I don't see how anyone else could be messing
> around with it. The fact that it's one bit error makes me think it could
> be due to faulty memory.

I have run memtest for 15 hours now, - no errors. Im running the kernel
with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enabled. Until now, no
more Bugs or Oopses occured.

I don't know if there's any way to reproduce the problem, but at least
I'll keep my eyes open.

Sven
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