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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Avan Anishchuk <matimatik@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtrace updates
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:02:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090407050237.GA14513@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904062142110.4010@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:45:37PM +0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > It bisected past them. I'm getting worried that it's timing-related, 
> > because nothing that remains looks even remotely interesting for that Mac 
> > mini, but right now:
> > 
> >  - bad: 56fcef75117a153f298b3fe54af31053f53997dd
> >  - good: bb233fdfc7b7cefe45bfa2e8d1b24e79c60a48e5
> > 
> > and there's not a whole lot of commits in between.
> 
> It's c3b1b1cbf002e65a3cabd479e68b5f35886a26db: 'ramfs: add support for 
> "mode=" mount option'.
> 
> And I checked. Reverting it at the tip fixes it. So no random timing 
> fluctuations.
> 
> So that commit causes some random SLAB corruption, that then (depending 
> apparently on luck) may or may not crash in some odd random places later.
> 
> Wu?

DON'T PANIC!  -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I'm looking into this :)

Thanks,
Fengguang


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-05 19:39 [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtrace updates Ingo Molnar
2009-04-05 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-05 20:02   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07  1:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07  3:51   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07  4:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07  4:45       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07  5:02         ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2009-04-07  5:28         ` [patch] ramfs: add support for "mode=" mount option, fix Ingo Molnar
2009-04-07  5:55           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-04-07  6:03             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-07  6:16               ` [PATCH] ramfs: fix double freeing s_fs_info on failed mount Wu Fengguang
2009-04-07  6:53                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-07  7:05                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-04-07  6:20             ` [PATCH] ramfs: add support for "mode=" mount option, fix Ingo Molnar
2009-04-07  5:30         ` [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtrace updates Wu Fengguang
2009-04-07  4:58   ` Ingo Molnar

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