Re: ext4 corruption on alpha with 4.20.0-09062-gd8372ba8ce28

Jan Kara
2019-02-21T13:29:19Z

On Thu 21-02-19 01:23:50, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > > First, I found out that both the problematic alphas had memory compaction and
> > > page migration and bounce buffers turned on, and working alphas had them off.
> > >
> > > Next, turing off these options makes the problematic alphas work.
> >
> > OK, thanks for testing! Can you narrow down whether the problem is due to
> > CONFIG_BOUNCE or CONFIG_MIGRATION + CONFIG_COMPACTION? These are two
> > completely different things so knowing where to look will help. Thanks!
>
> Tested both.
>
> Just CONFIG_MIGRATION + CONFIG_COMPACTION breaks the alpha.
> Just CONFIG_BOUNCE has no effect in 5 tries.

OK, so page migration is problematic. Thanks for confirmation!

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
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