Re: Memory corruption during hibernation since 2.6.31

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 17:35:22 EST


On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> Hello,
> after very long bisection, I finally found what's causing memory corruption
> during hibernation on my machine sice 2.6.31:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15753
>
> It's commit c9e444103b5e7a5a3519f9913f59767f92e33baf (mm: reuse unused swap
> entry if necessary).
>
> I don't know anything about swapping in Linux so I don't have a clue what's
> wrong with that commit.

Thanks for bisecting!

This looks rather serious. I'd be grateful from any clues from the mm guys
involved (CCed).

Do you use s2disk or the built-in hibernation code?

Rafael
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