On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:08:16AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Someone is stomping on SLAB internal data structures. Ext4 appears in > both stack traces so I guess we should CC linux-ext4. How easy is it > to reproduce this bug? One option is to try kmemcheck to see if it > catches the problem (see Documentation/kmemcheck.txt for details). I don't yet have a way to reproduce at will but I've anecdotally hit this or some related bug 3 times in the last week or two without trying, I only now captured a stack trace. I can try some workload to exercise the filesystem a bit more to see what turns up. I'll try that and kmemcheck next. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html