Re: [PATCH] Make

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:12:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > So no, lists aren't "special" in any inherent way, they are just special 
 > in these kinds of "incidentally, a lot of random data structure corruption 
 > has traditionally shown up in lists, because there are so many of them".

It's also been _really_ useful for showing up random bit flips in bad hardware.

"hey, if that bit had been a 1, this pointer would have looked valid and we
 wouldn't have oopsed" has led to quite a few cases where the reporter then
found a session with memtest86 enlightening.

	Dave

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