Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98 -- compiling with distcc

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 18:25:05 EST


Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:28:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > just to exercise that code path a bit more.
>
> what's the point of exercising that code path more? are you worried that
> there are bugs in it?

The only application which we know will exercise that code is the distcc
server. Making that little change while testing the patch will increase
the chance of shaking out any problems.
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