Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759509Ab2FHBJo (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:09:44 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:37288 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759112Ab2FHBJn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:09:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120607180515.4afffc89.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20120608002451.GA821@redhat.com> <20120607180515.4afffc89.akpm@linux-foundation.org> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:09:20 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gL3MC4xHP2DRux2QC05jklC9D_g Message-ID: Subject: Re: a whole bunch of crashes since todays -mm merge. To: Andrew Morton Cc: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org, Konstantin Khlebnikov , Oleg Nesterov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 815 Lines: 19 On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It appears this is due to me fat-fingering conflict resolution last > week. ?That hunk is supposed to be in mm_release(), not mmput(). Ahh. That would indeed make more sense. The mmput() placement is insane for so many reasons. I reverted it and pushed it out, because it clearly was horrible. Even if it is possible that Dave's problems are due to something else (but if they started with the mm merge, I don't see anything else nearly as scary in there) 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/