linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] fix move/migrate

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1202291432350.6746@router.home>
Date:	Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:33:06 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] fix move/migrate_pages() race on task struct

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:

> What was the user-visible impact of the bug?

THis was an oops reported by Dave Hansen after he inserted some loops in
the code to trigger a race condition.
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