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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:39:02 -0800
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Subject: Re: BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4
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To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:
>> Now, I will try with the 2 patches patches in this thread. I will also
>> turn on DEBUG_LIST and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
>
> I am not able to reproduce with those 2 patches applied.

Thanks for verifying. Davem/EricD - you can add Michal's tested-by to
the patches too.

And I think we can consider this whole thing solved. It hopefully also
explains all the other random crashes that EricB saw - just random
memory corruption in other datastructures.

EricB - do all your stress-testers run ok now?

                    Linus

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