linux-kernel - Re: oops when using git gc --auto

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Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:21:39 -0300
From:	Otavio Salvador <otavio@...ian.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops when using git gc --auto

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> writes:

> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 00:22, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today I got this oops, someone has an idea of what's going wrong?
>>
>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000020000000000 RIP:
>>  [<ffffffff802735c3>] find_get_pages+0x3c/0x69
>
> At this point, the most likely candidate is a memory corruption
> error, probably hardware. Can you run memtest86 for a few hours
> to get a bit more confidence in the hw (preferably overnight)?

Those memories are new, but I can try. No problem. Will get back to
you by tomorrow.

> I did recently see another quite similar corruption in the
> pagecache radix-tree, though. Coincidence maybe?

I hope not.

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