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    SubjectRe: 3.2-rc2+: Reported regressions from 3.0 and 3.1
    On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Linus Torvalds
    <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
    > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
    >>
    >> Subject    : hugetlb oops on 3.1.0-rc8-devel
    >> Submitter  : Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    >> Date       : 2011-11-01 22:20
    >> Message-ID : CALCETrW1mpVCz2tO5roaz1r6vnno+srHR-dHA6_pkRi2qiCfdw@mail.gmail.com
    >> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132018604426692&w=2
    >
    > Despite the subject line, that's not an oops, it's a BUG_ON().
    >
    > And it *should* be fixed by commit ea4039a34c4c ("hugetlb: release
    > pages in the error path of hugetlb_cow()") although I don't think Andy
    > ever confirmed that (since it was hard to trigger).

    I haven't seen it again, but that probably doesn't mean anything.
    I've also fixed a bug in some userspace software I was running, and
    that fix means I'm probably not stressing that part of the kernel
    anymore. (Even without the fix, it took two weeks to hit this.)
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