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 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. This is the right question for you Ben. The upstream Kconfig says that SLUB is the default slab allocator of choice. Where as in Debian, we choose SLAB as the default. My understanding is that the upstream kernel defaults are very orthodox, during selection ? -- Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC me in replies for quicker response
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