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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:05:44 +0300
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2103!"
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Hi Ingo.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>  but ... as i said it in my report, this is a regression since v2.6.24 -
>  v2.6.24 (and a whole bunch of commits since then, i listed the IDs)
>  booted up fine. The commit ID you mention is: v2.6.23-4345-g523b945, way
>  earlier than the good commit IDs.
>
>  so this is a recent regression.

Right. Then you probably want to look into any changes in arch/x86/
related to setting up the zonelists. I'm fairly certain this is not a
slab bug and I don't see any recent changes to the page allocator
either that would explain this.