Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764142AbXKNXlw (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:41:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756302AbXKNXlp (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:41:45 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50389 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755364AbXKNXlo (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:41:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:41:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20071114.154143.112110604.davem@davemloft.net> To: mpm@selenic.com Cc: mingo@elte.hu, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20071114233713.GW19691@waste.org> References: <20071114225335.GV19691@waste.org> <20071114.151013.05582536.davem@davemloft.net> <20071114233713.GW19691@waste.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 564 Lines: 13 From: Matt Mackall Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:37:13 -0600 > No, the usual strategy for debugging problems -outside- SLOB is to > switch to another allocator with more extensive debugging facilities. Ok, so the thing we still can do is do a dump_stack() at the list debugging assertion trigger points. - 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/