Re: Frequent oops in shrink_mmap

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 03:04:42 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, David desJardins wrote:

>(6 machines) have %eax=40000000. Is this consistent with the single-bit
>memory error, or not? If it's purely a hardware problem, should I be

It is.

>and other memory errors might remain undetected, and that the great
>majority of entries will be zero so that all of the errors are likely to
>occur on those pages?

If a bit change happens in the lower bits or a valid address you are going
to generate silenty some more mm corruption and the kernel will become
unstable in other ways.

Andrea

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