Re: Possible dcache BUG

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> 
> Well then, maybe you'd like more?  I attached two more from the same
> period.  Please remember that these are 5 months old, and could
> represent bugs already fixed.  I think this was stock 2.6.4.

These look like total memory corruption, they don't look anything like the 
prune_dcache things. 

> Perhaps due to CONFIG_REGPARM?  I haven't used it for quite a while, but
> back in March I was a bit bolder about config options marked
> experimental.

Entirely possible. gcc has historically had bugs in regparm (extra 
register pressure causing incorrect register re-use). It's supposed to be 
fixed in gcc-3+

		Linus
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