From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:40:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7645] New: Kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:1124 In-Reply-To: <457AF156.8070606@cern.ch> Message-ID: References: <200612070355.kB73tGf4021820@fire-2.osdl.org> <20061206201246.be7fb860.akpm@osdl.org> <4577A36B.6090803@cern.ch> <20061206230338.b0bf2b9e.akpm@osdl.org> <45782B32.6040401@cern.ch> <20061208155200.0e2794a1.akpm@osdl.org> <457AF156.8070606@cern.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ramiro Voicu Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org