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



Control: forwarded -1 https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/06/msg00005.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 corruption
> and failed builds. Enabling SLUB instead of SLAB in the kernel is an
> effective workaround.
[...]

For this test case, but probably not in general.  I think it's a bad
idea to make this change and leave the root cause unfixed.  I suggest
someone reminds David Miller that this is still open, as I don't see
any update to that thread in the last month.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code.

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