Hi Daniel,
>> Looks to me that this function itself has a bug: after the drop_pte
label
>> it is checked if the current page has a mapping. If this is true there
is
>> ...
>Chances are, you've run into the subtle double-free race I've been
working
>on for the last few days. Would you like to try this patch as see if it
>makes a difference?
>http://nl.linux.org/~phillips/patches/lru.race-2.4.19
Thanks for the patch but unfortunately it doesn't change the behaviour at
all. This BUG is still 100% reproducible by just having 1 process which
allocates memory chunks of 256KB and after each allocation writes to each
of the pages in order to make them dirty.
regards,
Heiko
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