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Re: [Xen-devel] bug: slab corruption (net backend?)

> >As the tcpdump below shows the xen machine sends the same packet over
> >and over again.  I'd guess some kind of memory corruption which kills
> >the packet checksum and makes eskarina drop the packet.  Maybe just
> >use-after-free as the slabdebug stuff will fill released memory blocks
> >with some pattern.
> 
> Can you disable tcp checksum offload (ethtool -K tx off) and see
> if you can reproduce this problem?

Never seen that again since I've turned off CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG,
which seems to be incompatible with the page mapping the xen
backend drivers do.

  Gerd

-- 
panic("it works"); /* avoid being flooded with debug messages */

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