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Brian Jackson <iggy@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> kernel bug at mm/slab.c:1107!
> invalid operand:0000 [#1]
> SMP
> 
> (this happened just after the Console: and Memory: lines)
> This didn't happen with 2.6.1-mm4 (that's the last -mm I tried). I can try to 
> track down where it started later, but this is my firewall, so I have to wait 
> till everyone goes to sleep first.

Yes, I know.  Seems that with some configs, each interrupt (only timer
interrupts at this point) is decrementing the preempt count by one.  It's
rather mysterious.