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SubjectRe: Oops in dentry_iput with 2.6.22-rc2 on AMD64
On Thu 24-05-07 23:07:52, Florin Iucha wrote:
> 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 ;)
OK, then it might be some gamma ray hitting your memory :)

> > 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.
Hmm, unless you'll see the oops again, it's probably undebuggable...

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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