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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-1.2689.fc6PAE: oops in ext3_clear_inode+0x52/0x8b
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:26:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <451C3E09.6000400@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060928142313.8848cec9.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 756e6547 -> uneG.   Matches "GenuineIntel".
>
> That'll get written into a temporary page by the /proc/cpuinfo handler, so
> it might just be a use-uninitialised.
>   

I was compiling a kernel at the time, so it could have come from the 
kernel source.

> It's relatively common for that big inode LRU walk to wander off in the
> wrong direction and to start operating on random memory.
>
> IOW: don't know.  Something scribbled on memory somewhere.
>   

Yep, that was as far as I got...

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-28 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-28 20:42 2.6.18-1.2689.fc6PAE: oops in ext3_clear_inode+0x52/0x8b Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-28 20:48 ` James Morris
2006-09-28 21:00   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-28 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 21:26   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-10-03  5:32   ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-03  5:42     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 14:06       ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-03 16:23         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 16:27           ` Eric Sandeen

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