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

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 06:09:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > 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)

Spooky. With that reverted, I don't see those weird oopses any more,
even with the potentially suspect 8169 tracing patch reapplied. So uh, I dunno.

	Dave

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