linux-kernel - Re: Random compiler errors

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Date:	Sun, 17 Oct 2010 08:58:09 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Random compiler errors

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:04:16 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:48:54 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > Not sure why this is happening, but lately when building kernels
> > I am getting non-reproducible cases of gcc failure. There are no
> > messages in system log. Cosmic rays? Bad memory?
> 
> I haven't had these personally, but from reading lkml over the past
> N years, these are usually due to memory or disk/storage problems.

That was what I thought, but memtest comes up clean and the
storage is SSD. My suspicion is something like EDAC or some DMA
bug.
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