On October 29, 2009 06:34:45 pm Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Theodore Tso <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:57:32PM -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > >> This but is *not* fixed. I just triggered it a few minutes ago by > >> abusing i915 and drm, which caused a panic. This is slightly newer > >> than 2.6.32-rc5, with a couple of i915 bugfixes thrown in. > > > > Andrew, can you test to see if this patch helps? > > I'm building a kernel with that patch now, and I'll keep running it > for awhile. I only seem to trigger this bug once a month or so, so > I'll let you know if I see any more corruption. > > Thanks, > Andy >
You should be able to trigger this using the same method I did. To mistakenly cause modprobe to spawn unlimited processes ending up in a swap storm. Thanks, Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
