Re: [BUG][Resend] 2.6.12-rc3-mm3: Kernel BUG at "mm/slab.c":1219 [update]

[Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > +  . = ALIGN(32);
>
> This should be . = ALIGN(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES)
>
> It was wrong on i386 already btw, which needs the same.

i386 always specifies the numbers and does not use symbolic constants.
We better leave that as it is.

> > +  /* Rarely changed data like cpu maps */
> > +  . = ALIGN(4096);
>
> Does it really need an 4096 byte alignment? That seems like
> a waste of memory. Cache line alignment should be enough.

Ok.

Index: linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.11.orig/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2005-05-10 13:35:25.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2005-05-10 13:59:18.000000000 -0700
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ SECTIONS
   }

   /* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
-  . = ALIGN(4096);
+  . = ALIGN(32);
   .data.mostly_readonly : AT(ADDR(.data.mostly_readonly) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 	*(.data.mostly_readonly)
   }
Index: linux-2.6.11/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.11.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2005-05-10 13:35:24.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.11/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2005-05-10 14:02:06.000000000 -0700
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ SECTIONS
 	CONSTRUCTORS
 	}

+  . = ALIGN(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES);
+  .data.cacheline_aligned : { (.data.cacheline_aligned) }
+
+  /* Rarely changed data like cpu maps */
+  . = ALIGN(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES);
+  .data.mostly_readonly : { *(.data.mostly_readonly) }
+
   _edata = .;			/* End of data section */

   __bss_start = .;		/* BSS */