Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 07:39:00 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3 |
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Linus Torvalds (2): > > Revert "[PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of ilog2() on a constant" > > Linux 2.6.21-rc3 > > Greg, I think we should revert that patch in 2.6.20.x stable serie too > as get_order is broken there as well, causing random kernel memory > corruption every now and then among others.
Did you confirm that that was indeed the cause of the problem you saw?
As far as I can tell, the bug (because it tested the wrong #define) would only affect the constant-size case, and only for something larger than a single page, and only for a non-power-of-two size. So it looked fairly hard to trigger, if only because all the obvious constants I saw seemed to already be powers-of-two..
So did you hunt it down to a particular cases where it triggers?
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