Re: xfsqa 144 is failing now

[David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:23:05AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:04:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I'm trying to fix up dmapi for the patch that uses filldir internally,
> > and 144 is the xfsqa test for this functionality.  It worked fine a
> > few weeks ago when I started that work but fails with plain TOT linux-xfs
> > now with errors like:
.....
> > 
> > does anyone have an idea what might be causing this?
> 
> Not yet - AFAIK we're only seeing it on i386 ATM, and we only noticed it in
> the past couple of days. Nobody has had a chance to look at it yet. I don't
> think dmapi has been tested regularly on i386 so I'm not sure when the problem
> first appeared yet.
> 
> > The only recent changes to xfs_dm.c are the hole punching fixes which
> > seem rather unrelated.
> 
> *nod*
> 
> Given the expected output, I wouldn't be surprised if we've got
> some kind of 32/64 bit problem here....

Just to confirm - test 144 is passing reliably on ia64 with a TOT
kernel and xfstests, so it's likely to be something specific to i386.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group