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From: Ingo Molnar

Subject: Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corruption fix

Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 6:14 pm

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

quoted text> but the exact incarnation depended on random details like configs, 
> which made this bug more prominent in v2.6.25-to-be.

i believe this was the reason why my many bisection attempts were 
unsuccessful: the bug pattern was not stable and seemingly working 
kernels had the memory corruption too. It was pure luck that v2.6.24 
"worked" and v2.6.25-rc9 broke visibly.

	Ingo
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Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Pekka Enberg, (Fri Apr 11, 1:21 am)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Pekka Enberg, (Fri Apr 11, 1:50 am)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Apr 11, 1:54 am)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Pekka Enberg, (Fri Apr 11, 2:05 am)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Pekka Enberg, (Fri Apr 11, 2:08 am)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Pekka Enberg, (Fri Apr 11, 2:11 am)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Apr 11, 2:24 am)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Nick Piggin, (Fri Apr 11, 3:34 am)

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Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Apr 11, 12:26 pm)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Apr 11, 12:28 pm)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Christoph Lameter, (Sat Apr 12, 3:38 am)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Yinghai Lu, (Sat Apr 12, 10:22 am)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Apr 14, 10:43 pm)

Re: [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/ ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Apr 14, 10:49 pm)

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Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 15, 9:02 am)

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Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9, Christoph Lameter, (Tue Apr 15, 1:03 pm)

Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 1:17 pm)

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[patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corruption fix, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 5:03 pm)

Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9, Christoph Lameter, (Tue Apr 15, 5:04 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Apr 15, 5:10 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 5:18 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Apr 15, 5:19 pm)

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Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 5:34 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 5:36 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 5:40 pm)

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Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Apr 15, 5:46 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 5:52 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 5:52 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Yinghai Lu, (Tue Apr 15, 5:56 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 6:02 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 6:14 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 6:17 pm)

Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Yinghai Lu, (Tue Apr 15, 6:17 pm)

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Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Tue Apr 15, 6:48 pm)

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Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Tue Apr 15, 7:20 pm)

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Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corrupti ..., Mel Gorman, (Wed Apr 16, 7:05 am)

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