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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Dave Boutcher <boutcher@us.ibm.com>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Memory Corruption
Date: 19 Aug 2002 16:01:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1029787262.12471.390.camel@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1029775853.1608.40.camel@terrier2>

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 12:50, Dave Boutcher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm chasing a wierd memory corruption problem on a ppc64 system.  The
> first byte of a slab_t structure keeps getting stepped on (zeroed,
> actually.)  This happens during a testcase that copies a large file
> called "junk" between file systems (a mix of ext2 and reiser) on a
> 2.4.13 kernel.  I know that's REALLY REALLY old, but it's whats in
> SuSE's SLES-7 release that we have customers running...
> 
> In every case, the page immediately preceding the slab_t has exactly the
> same data in it, and it looks like some kind of directory structure
> (note the presence of the word "junk", along with ".." and "." towards
> the end.)

Any chance the test case involves renames?

-chris



  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-19 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-19 16:50 Memory Corruption Dave Boutcher
2002-08-19 20:01 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2002-08-28 21:00   ` [reiserfs-list] " David Boutcher
2002-08-29 13:40     ` Chris Mason
2002-08-28 21:00   ` David Boutcher
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-24 15:31 Memory corruption Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-08-29 13:40 Memory Corruption Chris Mason
2002-08-15 20:26 Memory corruption Dave Boutcher
2002-08-15 20:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-05  8:33 Memory Corruption Ryan Sizemore
1999-06-22  1:39 Memory corruption Ulf Carlsson
1999-06-30  1:01 ` William J. Earl
1999-06-30  2:47   ` Ulf Carlsson
1999-06-30 22:01     ` William J. Earl
1999-07-01  0:23       ` Ralf Baechle
1999-07-01  0:53         ` William J. Earl
1999-07-01 11:25           ` Harald Koerfgen
1999-07-02 22:41           ` Ralf Baechle
1999-07-06 13:05           ` Ralf Baechle
1999-07-07 21:08             ` Harald Koerfgen
1999-07-08  1:51               ` Warner Losh
1999-07-08  3:12                 ` William J. Earl
     [not found]                   ` <37846EE7.EADD9E32@niisi.msk.ru>
1999-07-08 17:56                     ` William J. Earl
1999-07-08 10:39               ` Ralf Baechle

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