Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760317Ab2FHCWv (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:22:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62904 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760089Ab2FHCWt (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:22:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:22:41 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org, Konstantin Khlebnikov , Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: a whole bunch of crashes since todays -mm merge. Message-ID: <20120608022240.GC7191@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org, Konstantin Khlebnikov , Oleg Nesterov References: <20120608002451.GA821@redhat.com> <20120607180515.4afffc89.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1046 Lines: 24 On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 06:09:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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) Spooky. With that reverted, I don't see those weird oopses any more, even with the potentially suspect 8169 tracing patch reapplied. So uh, I dunno. Dave -- 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/