From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: Oops when using growisofs
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:31:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806222331.29691.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806222322.05706.arnd@arndb.de>
On Sunday 22 June 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Evidently, alloc_page_buffers got an out of memory condition, which was not caught
> by create_empty_buffers. No idea how it should be handled, but the fact that it's
> not looks like a bug to me ;-).
Oh, btw: http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=create_empty_buffers&btnG=Function+Search
finds 15 more instances of the same bug (and one other bug), across lots of
kernel versions and architectures. The bug has been there since we started
using git.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-22 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-22 16:18 Oops when using growisofs Michael Buesch
2008-06-22 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-22 21:31 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2008-06-22 22:09 ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-22 22:05 ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-22 22:28 ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-23 6:34 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-23 6:59 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-24 17:28 ` Jan Kara
2008-06-24 18:39 ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-25 1:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-25 9:37 ` Jan Kara
2008-06-25 9:46 ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-26 17:05 ` Jan Kara
2008-06-26 18:11 ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-26 18:21 ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-26 18:36 ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-26 18:39 ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-26 18:41 ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-29 19:39 ` Michael Buesch
2008-07-09 18:46 ` Jan Kara
2008-07-22 9:25 ` Andrew Morton
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