From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, jmoyer@redhat.com,
carson@taltos.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98 -- compiling with distcc
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:26:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040429162632.689fa7fe.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040429224936.GT29954@dualathlon.random>
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:28:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > just to exercise that code path a bit more.
>
> what's the point of exercising that code path more? are you worried that
> there are bugs in it?
The only application which we know will exercise that code is the distcc
server. Making that little change while testing the patch will increase
the chance of shaking out any problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-29 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-23 22:33 kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98 -- compiling with distcc Carson Gaspar
2004-04-28 2:02 ` Jeff Moyer
2004-04-29 21:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-29 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-29 22:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-29 23:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-04-30 0:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] <406D3E8F.20902@abbeynet.it>
2004-04-02 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-05 10:47 ` Marco Fais
2004-04-05 10:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-05 13:58 ` Marco Fais
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