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From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at fs/ext/super.c:428
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:48:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114194838.GB18436@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231962169.14825.54.camel@laptop>

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:42:49AM -0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:38 -0800, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> 
> > > > Below is the result of full bisect
> 
> > > >     futex: rely on get_user_pages() for shared futexes
> 
> > > However does a futex change make ext3 crap its pants?
> > > 
> > > Is there anything more to it than start the machine, and reboot?
> > 
> > Just system startup and reboot is enough to reproduce the problem. And 100%
> > reproducible. So, does seem to be any timing involved either.
> 
> That's very odd indeed, non of my test systems nor Ingo's ever triggered
> this, and that patch has been in -tip for a rather long time.
> 
> CommitDate: Tue Sep 30 12:35:20 2008 +0200
> 
> That's 3.5 months of test time.. most curious. What kind of userland do
> you have that triggers this?
> 

This is a Core 2 (X5460) DP server system with SuSE SLES 10 installation.
I have 3 ext3 partitions mounted; root, home and my own masterboot that I use to
switch between different OS installations.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090110003645.GA16107@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
2009-01-14  0:48 ` kernel BUG at fs/ext/super.c:428 Andrew Morton
2009-01-14  1:44   ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-14  2:48     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-14  4:40       ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-14 19:16         ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-14 19:29           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-14 19:38             ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-14 19:42               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-14 19:48                 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh [this message]
2009-01-14 21:20             ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-21 20:10               ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-24  7:36                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-26 16:39                   ` Darren Hart
2009-01-26 16:46                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-26 17:12                       ` Darren Hart

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