Re: 2.6.18-1.2689.fc6PAE: oops in ext3_clear_inode+0x52/0x8b

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 756e6547 -> uneG.   Matches "GenuineIntel".
>
> That'll get written into a temporary page by the /proc/cpuinfo handler, so
> it might just be a use-uninitialised.
>   

I was compiling a kernel at the time, so it could have come from the 
kernel source.

> It's relatively common for that big inode LRU walk to wander off in the
> wrong direction and to start operating on random memory.
>
> IOW: don't know.  Something scribbled on memory somewhere.
>   

Yep, that was as far as I got...

   J
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