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SubjectRe: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:48:32 -0700 (PDT)

> But that 0xf0 definitely has shown up before. It's not the *only*
> corruption, but it's definitely a very interesting pattern. And the other
> ones that didn't show the 0xf0 pattern could obviously be due to pointers
> that were corrupted by 0xf0 in low bytes, so it _may_ be the source of the
> other corruptions too that didn't have an obvious 0xf0 directly in them.

Ok.

Do we know of any pattern of the wireless device type in use?
If there is a pattern to that, it would be a huge clue.

And if it is predominantly one particular wireless device type, we
should be able to come up with a patch to test.


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