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Subject: Re: 2.6.20.6 kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2877
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On Fri, 4 May 2007, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:

> 2.6.20.6, FYI,
> 
> This suddenly cropped up after starting to use the i915 and drm module
> but maybe it is unrelated to that:

Scribble? Looks like the slab metadata structurs were corrupted. This may 
occur if the slab metadata at the beginning of a slab page gets corrupted.