Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261789AbVCKWp4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:45:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261754AbVCKWoh (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:44:37 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:13771 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261756AbVCKWnB (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:43:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:44:45 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Dave Jones cc: OGAWA Hirofumi , Paul Mackerras , benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AGP bogosities In-Reply-To: <20050311222614.GH4185@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <16944.62310.967444.786526@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20050311021248.GA20697@redhat.com> <16944.65532.632559.277927@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <87vf7xg72s.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20050311222614.GH4185@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 20 On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > > I'm fascinated that not a single person picked up on this problem > whilst the agp code sat in -mm. Even if DRI isn't enabled, > every box out there with AGP that uses the generic routines > (which is a majority), should have barfed loudly when it hit > this check during boot. Does no-one read dmesg output any more ? I don't think it actuially causes a barf, because the counts start at 1, and they go down to zero due to the double-free, but they don't become negative until you do that whole detection loop _twice_. I think- Linus - 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/