From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Cc: marc@osknowledge.org, mrmacman_g4@mac.com, adobriyan@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG GIT] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e1380288
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:10:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060211131008.55f19bb6.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87psltsy56.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org>
Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:
>
> Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> writes:
>
> > But the trace I sent didn't (directly) do any memory allocation so
> > the case was clear to me.
> >
> > From a developers point of view I totally agree that doing some bad
> > code 'here' might crash us 'there'. But the backtrace didn't look
> > like this to me...
>
> You have no idea what might have happened a second ago, or a minute
> ago, or five minutes ago. Corrupted memory is like a
> time-bomb--things don't always break right away.
>
Probability this bug was caused by the nvidia module: 0.1%
Probability this bug was caused by USB or SCSI: 99.9%
SCSI and USB device management remain quite buggy and we need all the help
we can get in finding and fixing these problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-11 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-10 21:41 Marc Koschewski
2006-02-10 22:25 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-02-10 22:42 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-02-11 9:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-11 15:10 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-02-11 15:19 ` Doug McNaught
2006-02-11 15:29 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-02-11 15:39 ` Doug McNaught
2006-02-11 21:10 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-02-11 22:54 ` Carlos Martín
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