[PATCH] slub: fix kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:1950!

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 14 14:51:18 EST 2011


On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 14:00 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg at kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >>
> >>> > Hmmm.. The allocpercpu in alloc_kmem_cache_cpus should take care of the
> >>> > alignment. Uhh.. I see that a patch that removes the #ifdef CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> >>> > was not applied? Pekka?
> >>>
> >>> This patch?
> >>>
> >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d4d84fef6d0366b585b7de13527a0faeca84d9ce
> >>>
> >>> It's queued and will be sent to Linus soon.
> >>
> >> Ok it will also fix Hugh's problem then.
> >
> > It's in Linus' tree now. Hugh, can you please confirm it fixes your machine too?
> 
> I expect it to, thanks: I'll confirm tonight.

>From report to resolution before I got to read the thread, that's how I
like them ! Thanks guys :-)

Cheers,
Ben.




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