Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:48:03 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
       Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> Earlier today i turned off local-cmpxchg and havent had a crash or 
> hang since then - but at 200 bootups and 4-5 crashes in a week that's 
> not conclusive yet. I think others might have workloads that trigger 
> this bug more often.

i mean, today i've only done 200 randconfig bootups since i did the 
cmpxchg SLUB revert, and given the statistics of the bug (thousands of 
bootups and just 3 provable crashes) i cannot yet conclude that the bug 
is truly gone.

	Ingo
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