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Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98 -- compiling with distcc

To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98 -- compiling with distcc
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:26:32 -0700
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:28:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > just to exercise that code path a bit more.
> 
> what's the point of exercising that code path more? are you worried that
> there are bugs in it?

The only application which we know will exercise that code is the distcc
server.  Making that little change while testing the patch will increase
the chance of shaking out any problems.

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