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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: pacman@kosh.dhis.org
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:58:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287521923.2198.2.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101019181021.22456.qmail@kosh.dhis.org>

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:10 -0500, pacman@kosh.dhis.org wrote:
> 
> So what type of driver, firmware, or hardware bug puts a 16-bit 1000Hz
> timer
> in memory, and does it in little-endian instead of the CPU's native
> byte
> order? And why does it stop doing it some time during the early init
> scripts,
> shortly after the root filesystem fsck?
> 
> I have not yet attempted to repeat the experiment. If it is
> repeatable, I'll
> probe more deeply into those init scripts later. I'm looking hard at
> /etc/rcS.d/S11hwclock.sh 

Stinks of USB...

Ben.

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: pacman@kosh.dhis.org
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:58:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287521923.2198.2.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101019181021.22456.qmail@kosh.dhis.org>

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:10 -0500, pacman@kosh.dhis.org wrote:
> 
> So what type of driver, firmware, or hardware bug puts a 16-bit 1000Hz
> timer
> in memory, and does it in little-endian instead of the CPU's native
> byte
> order? And why does it stop doing it some time during the early init
> scripts,
> shortly after the root filesystem fsck?
> 
> I have not yet attempted to repeat the experiment. If it is
> repeatable, I'll
> probe more deeply into those init scripts later. I'm looking hard at
> /etc/rcS.d/S11hwclock.sh 

Stinks of USB...

Ben.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-09  9:57 PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55 pacman
2010-10-09  9:57 ` pacman
2010-10-11 12:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-11 12:52   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-11 14:30 ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-11 14:30   ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-11 20:35   ` pacman
2010-10-11 20:35     ` pacman
2010-10-11 21:00   ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-11 21:00     ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-11 21:00     ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-13 14:40     ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-13 14:40       ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-13 14:40       ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-13 17:52       ` pacman
2010-10-13 17:52         ` pacman
2010-10-13 17:52         ` pacman
2010-10-18 11:33         ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-18 11:33           ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-18 11:33           ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-18 19:10           ` pacman
2010-10-18 19:10             ` pacman
2010-10-18 19:10             ` pacman
2010-10-18 21:10             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-18 21:10               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-18 21:33               ` pacman
2010-10-18 21:33                 ` pacman
2010-10-18 21:33                 ` pacman
2010-10-19 10:16                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-19 10:16                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-19 18:10                   ` pacman
2010-10-19 18:10                     ` pacman
2010-10-19 18:10                     ` pacman
2010-10-19 20:47                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-10-19 20:47                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-10-19 20:47                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-10-19 21:02                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-19 21:02                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-19 21:02                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-20  3:23                         ` pacman
2010-10-20  3:23                           ` pacman
2010-10-20  3:23                           ` pacman
2010-10-20 10:32                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-20 10:32                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-20 10:32                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-20 18:33                             ` pacman
2010-10-20 18:33                               ` pacman
2010-10-20 20:56                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-20 20:56                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-22  9:15                                 ` pacman
2010-10-22  9:15                                   ` pacman
2010-10-27  8:57                                 ` Pegasos OHCI bug (was Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55) pacman
2010-10-27  8:57                                   ` pacman
2010-10-27 10:13                                   ` Olaf Hering
2010-10-27 10:13                                     ` Olaf Hering
2010-10-27 21:04                                     ` Pegasos OHCI bug (was Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, pacman
2010-10-27 22:05                                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-10-27 22:58                                         ` pacman
2010-10-27 22:58                                           ` pacman
2010-10-27 23:33                                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-10-27 23:33                                             ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-10-28  1:11                                             ` pacman
2010-10-28 19:50                                               ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-10-28 19:50                                                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-10-28 21:07                                                 ` pacman
2010-10-29  0:16                                                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-10-29  0:16                                                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-11-05  6:43                                                     ` pacman
2010-11-05  6:43                                                       ` pacman
2010-11-29  5:44                                                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-27 13:27                                   ` Pegasos OHCI bug (was Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-27 13:27                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-19 20:58                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-10-19 20:58                       ` PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-18 19:37           ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-18 19:37             ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-18 19:37             ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-18 21:02             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-18 21:02               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-18 21:55             ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-18 21:55               ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-18 21:55               ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-19 16:24               ` Helmut Grohne
2010-10-19 16:24                 ` Helmut Grohne
2010-10-19 16:24                 ` Helmut Grohne
2010-10-19 16:42                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-19 16:42                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-19 16:42                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-18 20:59       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-18 20:59         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-18 20:59         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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