Re: 3.2-rc2+: Reported regressions from 3.0 and 3.1
Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:29:02 -0800
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Subject : hugetlb oops on 3.1.0-rc8-devel >> Submitter : Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> >> 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.)