Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtrace updates

Linus Torvalds
2009-04-07T04:52:20Z

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?

Linus