Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:43:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:43:17 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:24432 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:43:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 03:43:32 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Udo A. Steinberg" , airlied@csn.ul.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops on 2.4.13-pre5 in prune_dcache Message-ID: <20011031034332.L1340@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <3BDF51BE.4450888F@delusion.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:23:59PM -0800 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:23:59PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But blaming the thing on bad RAM is not a good strategy if there are many > of these reports. I'd love to see more of a pattern, though, because Dunno why, but usually all bitflips triggers during heavy list walking, so it's not too much surprisingly. I recall the most frequent bitflips were happening walking the buffer header lists in 2.2, but I recall dcache walks also oopsing due bitflips in 2.2. Andrea - 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/