linux-kernel - Re: a whole bunch of crashes since todays -mm merge.

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:09:20 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: a whole bunch of crashes since todays -mm merge.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> It appears this is due to me fat-fingering conflict resolution last
> week.  That hunk is supposed to be in mm_release(), not mmput().

Ahh. That would indeed make more sense. The mmput() placement is
insane for so many reasons.

I reverted it and pushed it out, because it clearly was horrible. Even
if it is possible that Dave's problems are due to something else (but
if they started with the mm merge, I don't see anything else nearly as
scary in there)

                    Linus
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