linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55

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Message-ID: <1287435736.2341.8.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:02:16 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	pacman@...h.dhis.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 12:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well, you've spotted a bug so I'd say we fix it asap.
> 
> It's a bit of a shame that we lose the only known way of reproducing a
> different bug, but presumably that will come back and bite someone
> else
> one day, and we'll fix it then :(

Well, I can always revert that and run some experiments here, provided I
can reproduce the problem at all ...

Cheers,
Ben.


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