Re: AGP bogosities
From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds_at_osdl.org)
Date: 03/11/05
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:44:45 -0800 (PST) To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> I'm fascinated that not a single person picked up on this problem
> whilst the agp code sat in -mm. Even if DRI isn't enabled,
> every box out there with AGP that uses the generic routines
> (which is a majority), should have barfed loudly when it hit
> this check during boot. Does no-one read dmesg output any more ?
I don't think it actuially causes a barf, because the counts start at 1,
and they go down to zero due to the double-free, but they don't become
negative until you do that whole detection loop _twice_. I think-
Linus
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