Bug#261893: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-generic: Kernel bug at mm/slab.c:1530
reassign 261893 gcc-3.3
thanks
* Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:36:09PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:33:31PM +0200, Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:
> > > I don't think placing a strategic printk() qualifies as a fix though :-)
> > > Maybe GCC is to blame here. I'm using gcc 3.3.4-6sarge1.0.1 (current from
> > > testing)
> >
> > This indeed smells like a compiler bug
> >
> > > Is it safe to use GCC 3.4.1 on this kernel?
> >
> > GCC 3.4.1 works fine for me on powerpc. I'd suggest you try all
> > available compilers (2.95, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 should be in Debian IIRC)
>
> I can confirm that rebuilding with GCC 3.4.1 made the ext3 oops go away.
> Linux version 2.6.8-1-generic (janjaap@elevation) (gcc version 3.4.1 (Debian 3.4.1-4sarge1)) #1 Tue Sep 7 15:40:36 CEST 2004
>
> I'll stresstest it a bit later.
>
> I'm getting a lot of these:
> include/asm/spinlock.h:114: warning: matching constraint does not allow a register
>
> I also built 2.6.8.1-mm4 with GCC 3.4.1 on Alpha. This tree contains lots of
> fixes for compilation with gcc 3.4 and gcc-cvs. It builds without a lot of
> warnings.
Thanks for testing. I'm reassigning this to the gcc-3.3 package, and
hope the gcc maintainers have a quick fix for this.
Norbert
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