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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 12:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well, you've spotted a bug so I'd say we fix it asap.
> 
> It's a bit of a shame that we lose the only known way of reproducing a
> different bug, but presumably that will come back and bite someone
> else
> one day, and we'll fix it then :(

Well, I can always revert that and run some experiments here, provided I
can reproduce the problem at all ...

Cheers,
Ben.