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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:21:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
 > > > me up), and that seems to show the corruption going way way back (ie going 
 > > > back to Linux-2.6.5 at least, according to one tester).
 > > 
 > > That was a Fedora kernel. Has anyone seen the corruption in vanilla 2.6.18
 > > (or older)?
 > 
 > Well, that was a really _old_ fedora kernel. I guarantee you it didn't 
 > have the page throttling patches in it, those were written this summer. So 
 > it would either have to be Fedora carrying around another patch that just 
 > happens to result in the same corruption for _years_, or it's the same 
 > bug.

The only notable VM patch in Fedora kernels of that vintage that I recall
was Ingo's 4g/4g thing.

		Dave

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