Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm3 - cp -a kills machine

Matt Mackall
2003-08-23T17:57:02Z

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:59:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > No console message either. Repeated after taking out local APIC
> > > support, same thing.
> >
> > Similar repeatable problems with periodic fsck on ext3 root. Appears
> > not to be ext3 or loop, perhaps something IDE-related in Linus' bk
> > tree added between mm2 and mm3.
>
> The more you can track this down, the easier it will be for us. Willing to
> triangulate a bit? For example, just start testing the suspicious parts of
> the patch?

Doh, false alarm. This turned out to be overzealous marking of
initdata (about 20 bytes!) in something I was applying locally.
Apparently, -mm3 made it straddle a page boundary.