Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S376198AbXECQbB (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 12:31:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S376206AbXECQbB (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 12:31:01 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:60549 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S376198AbXECQbA (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 12:31:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:30:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: William Lee Irwin III cc: Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , haveblue@ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub In-Reply-To: <20070503082716.GE19966@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501125559.9ab42896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070503011515.0d89082b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070503082716.GE19966@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 14 On Thu, 3 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > I've seen this crash in flush_old_exec() before. ISTR it being due to > slub vs. pagetable alignment or something on that order. >From from other discussion regarding SLAB: It may be necessary for powerpc to set the default alignment to 8 bytes on 32 bit powerpc because it requires that alignemnt for 64 bit value. SLUB will *not* disable debugging like SLAB if you do that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/