Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Sep 2000 16:07:13 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> |
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On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to know what it was. Last I heard, it was still the > > > case of "pages just off the freelist had some bits set that they > > > shouldn't have". That makes me nervous. > > > > Nope, that was what you /thought/ it was. > > Rik. > > You're apparently completely ignoring the fact that the page > "already on the LRU queue" was just allocated from > __alloc_pages() in the backtrace you had.
It wasn't. If it was allocated there, the boobytraps in either rmqueue() or page_reclaim() would have caught it.
> It's not me "thinking" anything. That was what your backtrace > said. And apparently it's still not clear _why_. So why are you > arguing?
Because I've boobytrapped rmqueue() and page_reclaim() and know that it isn't what it seemed like at first.
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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