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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:02:37 +0800
From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtrace
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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