Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 14 authors, 2011-12-21

Re: 3.2-rc2+: Reported regressions from 3.0 and 3.1

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2011-11-21 22:18:56
Also in: dri-devel, linux-acpi, linux-scsi, linux-wireless, lkml

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki [off-list ref] wrote:
Subject    : hugetlb oops on 3.1.0-rc8-devel
Submitter  : Andy Lutomirski [off-list ref]
Date       : 2011-11-01 22:20
Message-ID : CALCETrW1mpVCz2tO5roaz1r6vnno+srHR-dHA6_pkRi2qiCfdw@mail.gmail.com
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132018604426692&w=2
Despite the subject line, that's not an oops, it's a BUG_ON().

And it *should* be fixed by commit ea4039a34c4c ("hugetlb: release
pages in the error path of hugetlb_cow()") although I don't think Andy
ever confirmed that (since it was hard to trigger).

                     Linus
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