Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:05:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bart <mmx@riz.pl>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13112] Oops in drain_array
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Bart wrote:
>
>> Apr 27 16:57:30 fs kernel: [   96.446708] slab error in verify_redzone_free():
>> cache `size-128': memory outside object was overwritten
>
> Allright so a write after or before a 128 byte kmalloc object. Can
> you switch to the SLUB allocator so that we can get memory dumps of
> the corruption which will help to diagnose this further?

After switching to SLUB I had a complete hard freeze when trying to 
reproduce the error. I've got a photo of the screen but I dont know if it 
is usefull so I did not copied it to txt:

http://bz.riz.pl/IMAG0032.jpg

-- 
  Regards
  Bart mmx@riz.pl
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