Bug#789180: linux: Register corruption bug on sparc, please enable SLUB as workaround

2015-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 patch On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:01 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 > https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/06/msg5.html > > On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 10:54 -0500, David Matthew Mattli wrote: > > Source: linux > > Severity: important > > Tags: upstream > >

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2015-08-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 patch Bug #789180 [src:linux] linux: Register corruption bug on sparc, please enable SLUB as workaround Added tag(s) patch. -- 789180: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789180 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with prob

Re: Bug#789180: linux: Register corruption bug on sparc, please enable SLUB as workaround

2015-07-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 12:52 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The upstream Kconfig says that SLUB is the default slab allocator > of > > choice. Where as in Debian, we choose SLAB as the default. > > SLUB developers *wanted* it to be the default. > > > My understanding is that the upstream kernel

Re: Bug#789180: linux: Register corruption bug on sparc, please enable SLUB as workaround

2015-07-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 16:54 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:01 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The kernel has a register corruption bug on sparc that is causing > > corruption > > > and failed builds. Enabling SLUB instead of SLAB in the kernel is > > an > > > effecti

Re: Bug#789180: linux: Register corruption bug on sparc, please enable SLUB as workaround

2015-07-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:01 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The kernel has a register corruption bug on sparc that is causing > corruption > > and failed builds. Enabling SLUB instead of SLAB in the kernel is > an > > effective workaround. > [...] > > For this test case, but probably not in gene

Bug#789180: linux: Register corruption bug on sparc, please enable SLUB as workaround

2015-07-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: forwarded -1 https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/06/msg5.html On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 10:54 -0500, David Matthew Mattli wrote: > Source: linux > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > The kernel has a register corruption bug on sparc that is causing corr

Processed: Re: Bug#789180: linux: Register corruption bug on sparc, please enable SLUB as workaround

2015-07-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > forwarded -1 https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/06/msg5.html Bug #789180 [src:linux] linux: Register corruption bug on sparc, please enable SLUB as workaround Set Bug forwarded-to-address to 'https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/06/msg5.html'.

Bug#789180: linux: Register corruption bug on sparc, please enable SLUB as workaround

2015-06-18 Thread David Matthew Mattli
Source: linux Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, The kernel has a register corruption bug on sparc that is causing corruption and failed builds. Enabling SLUB instead of SLAB in the kernel is an effective workaround. James Y Knight observed it here https://lists.debian.org/debi