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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:17:16 +0100
From: Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-pre3-ac oops
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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:08:40PM +0000
> If you got 2.4.21-pre3-ac __free_pages_ok oops, please try this patch.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> --- 2.4.21-pre3-ac4/kernel/fork.c	Mon Jan 13 18:56:12 2003
> +++ linux/kernel/fork.c	Sun Jan 19 13:39:37 2003
> @@ -688,6 +688,8 @@
>  	p->lock_depth = -1;		/* -1 = no lock */
>  	p->start_time = jiffies;
>  
> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->local_pages);
> +
>  	retval = -ENOMEM;
>  	/* copy all the process information */
>  	if (copy_files(clone_flags, p))
> 
If this is it, and so far it looks like it for me, wouldn't it be time
to create a

CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST

option that caught these illegal list manipulations?

I know - talk is cheap, code isn't etc etc :-)

Jurriaan
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