Re: Ooops: 2.2.10-ac8 + ncr53c8xx driver

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:59:36 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> 2.2.10-ac8 was an experimental version from
> Alan Cox that has "cache poisoning" in it. This
> tripped up various bits of the kernel that used
> memory _after_ it was freed.

This brings up another idea - are there other parts of the kernel that
could use poisoning to try to catch bugs?

-Dan

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