Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161179AbWI1V0Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:26:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161182AbWI1V0Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:26:25 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:6533 "EHLO mail.goop.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161179AbWI1V0Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:26:24 -0400 Message-ID: <451C3E09.6000400@goop.org> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:26:33 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.18-1.2689.fc6PAE: oops in ext3_clear_inode+0x52/0x8b References: <451C33B2.5000007@goop.org> <20060928142313.8848cec9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060928142313.8848cec9.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 24 Andrew Morton wrote: > 756e6547 -> uneG. Matches "GenuineIntel". > > That'll get written into a temporary page by the /proc/cpuinfo handler, so > it might just be a use-uninitialised. > I was compiling a kernel at the time, so it could have come from the kernel source. > It's relatively common for that big inode LRU walk to wander off in the > wrong direction and to start operating on random memory. > > IOW: don't know. Something scribbled on memory somewhere. > Yep, that was as far as I got... J - 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/