linux-kernel - Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

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Message-ID: <20121210215436.GA31536@liondog.tnic>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:54:36 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	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 01:47:23PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

@Zlatko: can your daughter try to retrigger the freeze without the vbox
modules loaded?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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