From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265107AbTLCRZp (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:25:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265110AbTLCRZp (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:25:45 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-236-254.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.236.254]:48585 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265107AbTLCRZn (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:25:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCE1C87.2050006@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:25:27 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back to Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Jens Axboe , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?David_Mart=EDnez_Moren?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?o?= , Kernel Mailing List , clubinfo.servers@adi.uam.es, Ingo Molnar , Neil Brown Subject: Re: Errors and later panics in 2.6.0-test11. References: <200312031417.18462.ender@debian.org> <20031203162045.GA27964@suse.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > The ones I've seen seem to be raid-0, but Nathan (nathans@sgi.com) > reported problems in RAID-5 under load. I didn't decode the full oops on > that one, but it really looked like a stale "bi" bio that trapped on the > PAGE_ALLOC debug code. The problem I reported was also with RAID-5, and I have also found a problem similar to Nathan's (probably the same one) by just trying to run bonnie++ on an XFS filesystem on DM over RAID-5, even after formatting the XFS filesystem to forcibly align everything to RAID-5 stripes (64K units).