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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: dedekind@infradead.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Sergei Sharonov <Sergei.Sharonov@Halliburton.com>
Subject: Re: failed write verify causes segmentation fault
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:51:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1111002676.4814.112.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110974906.30606.38.camel@sauron.oktetlabs.ru>

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:08 +0300, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> This is only one possible reason. The other possible reason which I
> think is more likely has happened in your case is that JFFS2 tried to
> write to a non-empty NAND page, e.g., the page didn't contain all 0xFF.
> In this case write_verify() might fail as well. I don't know why JFFS2
> might do that, possibly there is some bug.

The question is not why the write verify fails. In his test environment
a page failure is expected to happen at some point. The question is why
JFFS2 did not cope with the problem as it is supposed to be.

tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-16 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-16  1:09 failed write verify causes segmentation fault Sergei Sharonov
2005-03-16 12:08 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-03-16 19:36   ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-03-16 19:51   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2005-03-17 18:20     ` Sergei Sharonov
2005-03-16 19:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-03-16 21:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-03-17 15:29   ` Sergei Sharonov

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