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From: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: -next March 3: Boot failure on x86 (Oops)
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:09:00 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B920694.7060402@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B910623.9020707@kernel.org>

Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> I'm having very difficult time imagining how 22b737f4 could have
> affected this as the patch is identical transformation of the previous
> code.  Also, 833af842 was released with 2.6.32 and stayed that way, so
> it really looks like a memory overrun / random corruption thing.  Can
> you please retry with kmalloc debug stuff turned on?
>   
With latest git (2.6.33-git11) the machine boots fine. So as you
mentioned this could be a memory overrun / random corruption issue.

I will try few more boots with latest / old git snapshots, and will
try to collect debug information on recreation.

Thanks
-Sachin

> Thanks.
>
>   


-- 

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-06  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-03  6:46 linux-next: Tree for March 3 Stephen Rothwell
2010-03-03 15:44 ` -next March 3: Boot failure on x86 (Oops) Sachin Sant
2010-03-04  1:28   ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-04  5:23     ` Sachin Sant
2010-03-05  6:08       ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-05  6:09         ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-05  6:17           ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-05  7:47             ` Sachin Sant
2010-03-05 13:25               ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-05 10:44           ` Sachin Sant
2010-03-05 13:24             ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-06  7:39               ` Sachin Sant [this message]

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