From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: afranck@gmx.de (Andreas Franck)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops in 2.4.4-ac9 (mm/slab.c)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:19:34 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E150BVu-0004ja-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0105170103380.2918-100000@dg1kfa.ampr.org> from "Andreas Franck" at May 17, 2001 01:05:26 AM
> when this happened, and I was not able to log in onto any console or
> terminal afterwards (probably because tty_open failed very miserably
> on the way?)
Its a deliberate debugging trap.
> #if DEBUG
> if (cachep->flags & SLAB_POISON)
> if (kmem_check_poison_obj(cachep, objp))
> BUG();
> ^^^^^^ This one is triggered
Someone freed memory and then scribbled on it.
The first thing useful here is to know which drivers you were using shortly
before the oops
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-17 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-16 23:05 oops in 2.4.4-ac9 (mm/slab.c) Andreas Franck
2001-05-17 0:19 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-05-17 21:59 ` Andreas Franck
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