Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S969280AbXEHXFA (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 19:05:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S968588AbXEHXEv (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 19:04:51 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:35824 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968757AbXEHXEu (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 19:04:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 16:04:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Kevin Winchester cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.21-mm1 and now 2.6.21-git: SLUB Crashes on boot In-Reply-To: <4640FE35.2070605@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20070505014955.8f3990b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4640FE35.2070605@gmail.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: 1015 Lines: 21 On Tue, 8 May 2007, Kevin Winchester wrote: > x86_64 UP Athlon64 I get a crash on boot using SLUB. Switching to SLAB makes > it go away. I don't have a serial console, so the best I have is a digital > photo of as many lines as my VGA console was able to get (60 or so). Is there > a better way to capture the oops output so that the full trace canbe seen? > > http://picasaweb.google.com/kjwinchester/Linux/photo#5061982383505227842 It fails to create a slab. There should be some of message above what I can see that would indicate what went wrong. Please try to reboot and specify "slub_debug" as a kernel parameter. If it boots then send us the kernel log output. Must have something to do with how the scsi slab is created in scsi_setup_command_freelist. - 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/