Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2007 23:07:52 -0500 | Subject | Re: Oops in dentry_iput with 2.6.22-rc2 on AMD64 | From | (Florin Iucha) |
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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:57:11AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > I was running a multithreaded perl application that leaks some memory > > so it gets to eat up a significant chunk of my 2 GB and even push a > > bit into swap. I left it running before going out for a walk. > Hmm, what seems suspitious is, that in R12 (which probably contains > the address dereferenced later) is address ffff9100... while all other > addresses start with ffff8100. So it seems to me it could be a 1-bit > flip. Care to check your memory with memtest?
I let it run overnight: 8 passes and no surprises. This is a system that has been quite stable for a year and a half, except finding the occasional kernel bug ;)
> Also this is a code all other people use all the time so I guess we > would see more reports if this was some general bug...
Haven't got any more oopses like that, either.
Thanks, florin
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