On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:59 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Matthias Dahl<ml_kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Can you reproduce the bug without the proprietary nvidia module that > >> seems to be loaded? > > > > I am sorry but I forgot to test that and right now I am not very keen on > > trying again since this is my primary machine and I had quite some fs > > corruption (ext4 on md raid5 -> no barriers) the last times. :-( But this also > > happened w/o Xorg ever being run during that session (though naturally the > > nvidia kernel module was still loaded). > > Sure, I can understand that. The bug looks like regular slab > corruption which could have been caused the nvidia blob. So I think > the issue should be closed unless someone can reproduce it without the > blob. > > That said, sys_inotify_add_watch() also appears in the trace and > there's been quite a few bug fixes in that area recently so I guess we > should CC Eric Paris just in case the oops rings a bell to him. Nope, no bells here :( That slab cache is declared globally and allocated at __init time. I haven't seen any reports of writes off the ends of marks which might mess up a chache... sorry..... -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
