On Thursday, 14 of August 2008, Alan D. Brunelle wrote:
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> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday, 14 of August 2008, Alan D. Brunelle wrote:
> >> I ran into this trying 2.6.27-rc3 today:
> >>
> >> [6.461876] kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:217!
> >>
> >> (full boot log attached)
> >>
> >> I bisected it to:
> >>
> >> git-bisect bad 1c89ac55017f982355c7761e1c912c88c941483d
> >>
> >> which is:
> >>
> >> commit 1c89ac55017f982355c7761e1c912c88c941483d
> >> Merge: 88fa08f... b1b135c...
> >> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> >> Date:   Tue Aug 12 08:40:19 2008 -0700
> >>
> >>     Merge
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
> > 
> > This is a merge commit that introduced several changes into the
> > kernel.  It would be helpful to search through these changes.
> 
> I came in this morning, and did a 'git bisect reset' and 'git pull'
> built, and everything booted fine. I don't know if some fix came in for
> something else, or if the problem got "hidden" (some sort of timing
> thing, so the problem still lurks). If you feel it's important to track
> this down, if you could give me instructions on how to break apart that
> one merge, I could then try individual kernels from there...

I have created a Bugzilla entry at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11342
for this problem.  I'll close it now, but please reopen if if the problem
reappears.

Thanks,
Rafael
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