From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759002AbYETQlF (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 12:41:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765233AbYETQkv (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 12:40:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:46180 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756420AbYETQkt (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 12:40:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:22:27 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexey Dobriyan , Arjan van de Ven , Matthew Wilcox , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make Message-ID: <20080520152227.GC542@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Alexey Dobriyan , Arjan van de Ven , Matthew Wilcox , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20080502182745.GL14976@parisc-linux.org> <20080501133209.2c04dad0@infradead.org> <20080502184922.GM14976@parisc-linux.org> <20080520032448.GA19348@redhat.com> <20080520071458.707d6e90@infradead.org> <20080520142727.GC4843@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:12:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So no, lists aren't "special" in any inherent way, they are just special > in these kinds of "incidentally, a lot of random data structure corruption > has traditionally shown up in lists, because there are so many of them". It's also been _really_ useful for showing up random bit flips in bad hardware. "hey, if that bit had been a 1, this pointer would have looked valid and we wouldn't have oopsed" has led to quite a few cases where the reporter then found a session with memtest86 enlightening. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk