On Thu, 6 Sep 2012, Luck, Tony wrote: > r9 was computed as 32 + return value from a call to allocate_slab() > > So I think we are inside the inlined "inc_slabs_node()" call on line 1357 of mm/slub.c Ok that would mean its not related to object arrangement within the page done by the allocator. How can a atomic_long value become misaligned? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html