[REGRESSION] SLAB allocator (on Zynq)

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed May 8 15:39:07 EDT 2013


Hi,

* Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com> [130508 12:26]:
> Hi,
> 
> I compiled the latest kernel for Zynq and ran into issues when the SLAB
> allocator is selected. Booting crashes early with a NULL pointer
> dereference (boot log attached).
> Switching to the SLUB allocator resolves the issue (boot log attached).

There's a fix for this now in lkml thread
"[GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.10":

http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/8/374#

Regards,

Tony



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