Re: oops on 2.4.13-pre5 in prune_dcache

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:23:59PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But blaming the thing on bad RAM is not a good strategy if there are many
> of these reports. I'd love to see more of a pattern, though, because

Dunno why, but usually all bitflips triggers during heavy list walking,
so it's not too much surprisingly. I recall the most frequent bitflips
were happening walking the buffer header lists in 2.2, but I recall
dcache walks also oopsing due bitflips in 2.2.

Andrea