From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265078AbTLCQ0n (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:26:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265080AbTLCQ0n (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:26:43 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:33254 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265078AbTLCQ0l (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:26:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:26:33 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDnez?= Moreno , Kernel Mailing List , clubinfo.servers@adi.uam.es, Ingo Molnar , Neil Brown Subject: Re: Errors and later panics in 2.6.0-test11. Message-ID: <20031203162633.GB27964@suse.de> References: <200312031417.18462.ender@debian.org> <20031203162045.GA27964@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20031203162045.GA27964@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03 2003, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, David [iso-8859-15] Martínez Moreno wrote: > > > > > > Hello again. I'm testing 2.6.0-test11 in one of my servers. In about a day or > > > so under a web/FTP server load, the kernel starts to spit messages: > > > > > > Dec 2 22:07:25 ulises kernel: Bad page state at prep_new_page > > > [ ... ] > > > > > > This machine is Pentium IV with 512 MB of RAM, IDE & SATA disks, RAID 0 over the > > > 2 SATA disks, vanilla 2.6.0-test11, Debian testing, apache2 and proftpd. > > > > Interesting. Another RAID 0 problem report.. > > Hmm did _all_ reports include raid-0, or just "some" raid? I'm looking > at the bio_pair stuff which raid-0 is the only user of, something looks > fishy there. Looks like some raid-5 and others were involved in other reports, so that's probably not it. The bio_pair stuff has a few flaws, but nothing that could bad things to happen. -- Jens Axboe