On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 01:00 +0200, Ian Schram wrote: > > Incidentally, if this really is the same bug I have, you might want to > > remove the iwlagn module completely, even loading it once is a bad > > thing, it has started to corrupt things here entirely by making DMA go > > to random locations. > > with the release of -rc7 i was starting to wonder what had happened to this bug, > i'm not affected by it(other hardware) but from what i gather it's a serious problem? > > i have always wondered what people affected by this find if they revert the > "memory allocation optimization" patch > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=da99c4b6c25964b90c79f19beccda208df1a865a > > apologies if this is a too random stab in the dark, just sounds like we might want to fix this > before .27. And since there seems to be no git bisects that pinpoint the problem .. > i figured i might as well send this. I haven't really pondered bisecting since it happens for me with iwl5000 hardware which wasn't supported before... Because this bug was affecting my machine quite a bit I've now removed the wireless card from it for the time being. I still think it should be easy to reproduce by using a machine with a good amount of memory (I have 6.5G) and enabling CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG, which seems to have at least some part in it. johannes
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