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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: pinotj@club-internet.fr
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	nathans@sgi.com
Subject: Re: Re: [Oops]  i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:36:33 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312011606200.2733@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mnet1.1070127696.1558.pinotj@club-internet.fr>



On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 pinotj@club-internet.fr wrote:
>
> I triggered the slab oops with a very small kernel -test11 (~700KB):

The only thing that looks at _all_ likely to explain the problem is

> CONFIG_XFS_FS=y

since there aren't that many XFS users I know of. It's also now the only
thing that uses buffer heads in your config, so..

I assume it's not an option to try another filesystem on this setup, but
it's entirely possible that the 2.6.x buffer-head removal has impacted XFS
negatively - although I'm a bit surprised at how easily you seem to show
problems, since XFS actually has active maintenance.

Nathan - I don't know if you follow linux-kernel, but Jerome Pinot has
been having bad slab problems for some time now. Do normal XFS users
compile with slab debugging turned on?

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-02  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-29 17:41 Re: [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray) pinotj
2003-12-02  0:36 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-12-02  1:37   ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-02  6:44     ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-02 18:05       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 20:05         ` Nathan Scott
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-09  0:57 pinotj
2003-12-05 22:57 pinotj
2003-12-05 23:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-27 18:42 pinotj
2003-11-25 17:30 pinotj
2003-11-25 22:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-24 15:20 pinotj
2003-11-21 18:12 pinotj
2003-11-21 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-20  2:40 pinotj
2003-11-20  1:50 pinotj

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