[maemo-users] Memory corruption during WLAN use: detailled analysis and workaround

[From: Jon Smirl]

On 9/11/07, Tilman Vogel <tilman.vogel at web.de> wrote:
> A few weeks ago I had a very bad spontaneous crash of my 770 making it
> unbootable. The progress bar never showed up. I could reflash, but got
> suspicious about what might have caused it. I started searching for a
> memory checker and found:

Can you write protect the page getting corrupted and cause a kernel
OOPS on the write? That would generate a stack trace that would target
the offending code. Of course if DMA hardware is doing the write this
won't work.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com