Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:13:13 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Oops in kswapd (Kernel 2.4.17) |
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Patrick Burns wrote: > > Is there some kind of memory problem with kernel 2.4.17? I noticed in an > article at: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101096234600708&w=2 > > and another at: > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.1/0809.html > > that people were getting oopses in kswapd.
One does begin to think that there may be a problem. The inode, dentry and buffer caches do involve a lot of pointer chasing, and do tend to expose hardware problems (memory), and we've tended to assume that's the reason for all the reports.
But there are a *lot* of reports, and the same argument applies: the long pointer chases will expose random memory corruption caused by a kernel bug.
It's starting to look fishy.
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