linux-kernel - Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of May 30th 2008

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Date:	Fri, 30 May 2008 15:17:25 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of May 30th 2008

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 30 May 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>> On Fri, 30 May 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>>> Rank 7: set_page_address (oops)
>>>>     Reported 53 times (65 total reports)
>>>>     crash coming from flush_all_zero_pkmaps; was this fixed by Hugh the
>>>>     other day?
>>> No, not at all.  But I'll have a little ponder over it.
>>
>> It's a BUG_ON(), but sadly the oops gatherer doesn't seem to gather 
>> that part. You can see it from the code portion: the "<0f> 0b" gives 
>> it away (that's the ud2 opcode).
> 
> I've seen it a few more times the last few weeks, I'll dig into how that 
> is happening.
> Maybe we changed the bug_on text to miss my regexps ;(

ok it was a bug I already fixed a few days ago; any reports from the last 2 or 3 days shouldn't have this.
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