Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corruption fix

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 21:15:09 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> but the exact incarnation depended on random details like configs,
> which made this bug more prominent in v2.6.25-to-be.

i believe this was the reason why my many bisection attempts were
unsuccessful: the bug pattern was not stable and seemingly working
kernels had the memory corruption too. It was pure luck that v2.6.24
"worked" and v2.6.25-rc9 broke visibly.

Ingo
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