Re: SLUB Corruption from witin drivers/usb/core/devio.c

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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012, Oncaphillis wrote:
>
>> > I suspect the values for "wait" are much too small.  The EHCI
>> > specification doesn't really say what they should be.  Try
>> > replacing the entire code snippet above with
>> >
>> >     udelay(1000);
>> >
>> > and see if that makes any difference.
>>
>> This looks very promising indeed. I've inserted the second patch
>> of Huan Li (not the one which killed the kernel) and your
>> modification and have a stable run for more then 8 hours.
>>
>> I assume the modified udelay is not supposed to be a permanent
>> fix for a production kernel. So how do we proceed ?
>
> A proper fix will have to wait.  It would require a bunch of other
> changes which are in my pipeline.
>
> For the moment, you might be able to experiment to see how low the
> delay can get before the problem starts to appear.  1000 may be more
> than you need.  Does 250 work?
>
> Huajun Li can submit his second patch regardless.  I think it's not
> related to your problem but it makes sense.
>
> Alan Stern
>

My part was submitted for review, thanks.
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