linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make

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Message-ID: <20080520152227.GC542@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 11:22:27 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:12:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > So no, lists aren't "special" in any inherent way, they are just special 
 > in these kinds of "incidentally, a lot of random data structure corruption 
 > has traditionally shown up in lists, because there are so many of them".

It's also been _really_ useful for showing up random bit flips in bad hardware.

"hey, if that bit had been a 1, this pointer would have looked valid and we
 wouldn't have oopsed" has led to quite a few cases where the reporter then
found a session with memtest86 enlightening.

	Dave

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