Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264668AbUD2XYR (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:24:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264887AbUD2XYQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:24:16 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:38093 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264668AbUD2XYQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:24:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:26:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, jmoyer@redhat.com, carson@taltos.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, davem@redhat.com Subject: Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98 -- compiling with distcc Message-Id: <20040429162632.689fa7fe.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040429224936.GT29954@dualathlon.random> References: <382320000.1082759593@taltos.ny.ficc.gs.com> <16527.4259.174536.629347@segfault.boston.redhat.com> <20040429210951.GB20453@logos.cnet> <20040429142807.1fa4c5ea.akpm@osdl.org> <20040429224936.GT29954@dualathlon.random> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 689 Lines: 16 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:28:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > just to exercise that code path a bit more. > > what's the point of exercising that code path more? are you worried that > there are bugs in it? The only application which we know will exercise that code is the distcc server. Making that little change while testing the patch will increase the chance of shaking out any problems. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/