linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:48:03 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> Earlier today i turned off local-cmpxchg and havent had a crash or 
> hang since then - but at 200 bootups and 4-5 crashes in a week that's 
> not conclusive yet. I think others might have workloads that trigger 
> this bug more often.

i mean, today i've only done 200 randconfig bootups since i did the 
cmpxchg SLUB revert, and given the statistics of the bug (thousands of 
bootups and just 3 provable crashes) i cannot yet conclude that the bug 
is truly gone.

	Ingo
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