Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:17:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       Morten Helgesen <morten.helgesen@nextframe.net>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: list_head debugging patch
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On 30 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Iau, 2003-05-29 at 22:09, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 May 2003 22:13, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > >> Same thing; nuke the __list_head_check() check in list_empty()
> > >> please.
> >
> > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:03:19PM +0200, Morten Helgesen wrote:
> > > Ok, after having nuked __list_head_check() in list_empty() I can`t
> > > seem to trigger any more list corruption on this box.
> >
> > Well, that's a hopeful sign; at some point maybe IDE will stop oopsing
> > on me with it.
>
> The IDE code has real list mangling bugs at probe. They are fixed in -ac
> but I'm still waiting for the taskfile stuff to get sorted so I can do
> a sane merge of the stuff pending.

List mangling at probe is fixed in 2.5.69-ac1, but there are more bugs
with different triggerability.
--
Bartlomiej

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