Re: corruption

Lawrence Walton
2000-12-01T15:34:37Z

Andrew Morton [andrewm@uow.edu.au] wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > I bet this'll catch it:
> > >
> > > --- include/linux/list.h.orig Fri Dec 1 08:33:36 2000
> > > +++ include/linux/list.h Fri Dec 1 08:33:55 2000
> > > @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
> > > static __inline__ void list_del(struct list_head *entry)
> > > {
> > > __list_del(entry->prev, entry->next);
> > > + entry->next = entry->prev = 0;
> > > }
> > >
> > > /**
> > >
> > > First person to send a ksymoops trace gets a cookie.
> >
> > mmmm... choc-chip.
> >
> > With the above patch applied the machine crashed after an hour. Crashed
> > a second time during the e2fsck. gdb backtrace:
> >
>
>
> This sync_buffers corruption is fixed by Jens' patch, which is present
> in test12-pre3.
>
> However it is possible that the original list_head-based corruption which
> I reported will not be fixed by this patch. This is because none of the
> structure offsets match up with what I observed, and because Lawrence's
> system is "SCSI-only" - no SCSI drivers are headactive.
>
> Lawrence, did you see this problem with test12-pre3?

Yes all of my current problems are with pre3;
Is there anything you would like me to test
specific?
The best way to cause problems so far is
compiling mozilla.
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