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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org> writes:
> 
> All sounds very sensible ... but not sure why -mm would hit it all the
> time, and never mainline ...

You can use memeat.c to test the machine with other kernels.
It tends to find such problems reliably. Let it run for some time

http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/memeat.c

-Andi