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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Memory corruption & SCSI in 2.6.15
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:33:28 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134419609.6989.116.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512120909460.15597@g5.osdl.org>


> If it's easily repeatable, doing a "git bisect" to see when it starts 
> happening is the obvious big sledge-hammer thing to try. Even if you don't 
> bisect all the way, just narrowing it down a bit more might help.

Sure, though I assumed it had already be tracked down at least partially
by Brian ;)

> Also, enabling DEBUG_PAGEALLOC might help, but that's not available on 
> powerpc.

Remind me what is needed to get that working ? Unmapping of linear
mapping pages ? (I suppose I could do that if I also disable using large
pages for it).

> There's a raid1 use-after-free bugfix that I just merged and pushed out, 
> but I doubt that one is relevant. But you might try to update.
> 
> 		Linus


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-12 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-12  7:13 Memory corruption & SCSI in 2.6.15 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-12-12 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-12 18:32   ` Nathan Lynch
2005-12-12 18:51     ` Jens Axboe
2005-12-12 20:33   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-12-12 20:51     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-12 20:57       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-12-13  0:11       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-12-12 18:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-12-12 19:05 ` Brian King
2005-12-12 19:55   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-12 20:13     ` James Bottomley
2005-12-12 20:01   ` Nathan Lynch

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