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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pre6 BUG oops
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 19:53:37 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9rpks1$bk$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BE03401.406B8585@mandrakesoft.com> <20011031.094112.125896630.davem@redhat.com> <9rpfbj$vrn$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <3BE04338.8F0AF9D4@mandrakesoft.com>

In article <3BE04338.8F0AF9D4@mandrakesoft.com>,
Jeff Garzik  <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Maybe it's just the page count that is buggered, and we free it too
>> early as a result.  Is this the same machine that had interesting
>> trouble before?
>
>yes, a UP alpha running 2.4.14-pre6, that was described in the false oom
>killer report.

Ok, I think it's the same bug, and that we're just freeing the wrong
page somehow. 

I wonder if the "VALID_PAGE(page)" macro is reliable on alpha? You seem
to be able to trigger this too easily for it to not being something
specific to the setup..

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-31 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-31 17:25 pre6 BUG oops Jeff Garzik
2001-10-31 17:41 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-31 18:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-31 18:30     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-31 19:53       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-10-31 21:48         ` 2.4.13 (and 2.4.5) performance drops under load and does not recover David Lang
2001-10-31 23:22           ` David Lang
2001-11-01 21:37             ` David Lang
2001-11-01 22:12               ` ip tables performace problem was " David Lang
2001-11-03 20:46         ` pre6 BUG oops Richard Henderson

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