Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755652Ab1EXLzZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 07:55:25 -0400 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:42613 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751865Ab1EXLzY (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 07:55:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:52:17 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: SLUB regression in current Linus Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 732 Lines: 27 I started experiencing a boot hang in 2.6.39+, and bisected it to this change: commit 442b06bcea23a01934d3da7ec5898fa154a6cafb Author: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue May 17 16:29:31 2011 -0500 slub: Remove node check in slab_free Reverting the patch appears to fix the hang for me, although I'm not sure what the actual problem is. This is on a quad-core Opteron (1352). Let me know if you need any further info. - James -- James Morris -- 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/