Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7645] New: Kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:1124

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Ramiro Voicu wrote:
> Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:22:57 +0000 (GMT)
> >> Ramiro, have you had a chance to test this yet?
> > 
> > Here's a bigger but better patch: if you wouldn't mind,
> > please try this one instead, Ramiro - thanks.
> 
> It seems that this patch fixed the problem. I tested on my desktop and
> the problem seems gone.

Great, thanks.  Well, actually it's trivial that it has fixed
the problem, in that it removed that particular BUG_ON: what's more
important is that it then allowed your program to work as usual, good.

> 
> Based on what Hugh supposed, I was able to have a small java program to
> test it ... and indeed it is very possible that there was a race in the
> initial app
> 
> I will try to test it tomorrow on the other machine ( it is unable to
> boot now after a hard reboot ), but I think the bug can be closed now.
> 
> Thank you very much for your support!

Thank _you_ very much for reporting and testing:
it's a pleasure to deal with bugs we can fix so easily!

Hugh

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