Re: a whole bunch of crashes since todays -mm merge.

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jun 07 2012 - 21:09:38 EST


On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It appears this is due to me fat-fingering conflict resolution last
> week.  That hunk is supposed to be in mm_release(), not mmput().

Ahh. That would indeed make more sense. The mmput() placement is
insane for so many reasons.

I reverted it and pushed it out, because it clearly was horrible. Even
if it is possible that Dave's problems are due to something else (but
if they started with the mm merge, I don't see anything else nearly as
scary in there)

Linus
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