Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 16:59:40 EST



* Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > my current guess would have been some bootmem regression/interaction
> > that messes up the buddy bitmaps - but i just reverted to the v2.6.24
> > version of bootmem.c and that crashes too ...
>
> The simplest solution for now may be to go with your workaround increasing
> SECTION_SIZE_BITS to 27. [...]

the bug's effects are so severe that this is the last thing i'd like to
do.

Ingo
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