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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related?
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 20:40:56 +0000 (GMT)
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On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Ryan Richter wrote:
> 
> OK, I guess I'll stick with 2.6.14.3 for now, plus your patch.  Should I
> keep Kai's st.c patch?  There was some mention of other patches, are
> those relevant?  Most of that discussion went over my head...

For the "Bad page state" premature freeing you were seeing, only my
patch should be relevant.  There are other patches in the works, yes,
and we have good reasons for them; but don't worry about them for this.

Hugh