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Subject: Re: Redzone overwritten with CONFIG_SECURITY
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On Tue, 27 May 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Then it's likely that we corrupt hugetlbfs_inode_cachep because of
> SLUB merging and the real problem is somewhere else. Can you also try
> passing 'slub_nomerge" as a kernel parameter with SLUB?

Enabling Redzone disables merging. So its unrelated to merging.