linux-kernel - Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFzPa1tk_uWs_1cyYD0XpjWg_Fn+o431hUk3AnabOeUXSQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:47:23 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@...on.hr>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
>
> Aren't we gonna consider the out-of-tree vbox modules being loaded and
> causing some corruptions like maybe the single-bit error above?
>
> I'm also thinking of this here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317

Yup, that looks more likely, I agree.

                Linus
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