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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:26:41 +1100
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [Oops]  i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:49:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Nathan - did you see the two debug patches I sent out that caught this?
> 
> One adds checks to "atomic_dec_and_test()" to verify that the count never
> goes negative. The other basically disables all the slab code, and
> replaces them with straight page allocations, and that together with
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC helps find bad behaviour (touching allocations
> after they are free'd etc).
> 

Yep - I'll remove that PageSlab use in there, and start testing
with these too.

thanks.

-- 
Nathan