From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265655AbUABUf7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:35:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265656AbUABUf6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:35:58 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:14610 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265655AbUABUf5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:35:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:35:55 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Claas Langbehn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS forced shutdown with kernel 2.6.0 Message-ID: <20040102203555.A1420@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Claas Langbehn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <20040102095051.GA19872@rootdir.de> <20040102182921.A27237@infradead.org> <200401022027.i02KRe7X013502@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200401022027.i02KRe7X013502@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>; from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:27:40PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:27:40PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:29:21 GMT, Christoph Hellwig said: > > > I've seen the same bug a few times lately, but only if I had previous > > memory corruption due to code I was hacking on. Can you reproduce it > > without the nvidia module loaded as that is likely source of such > > corruption? > > While you're at it, see what *else* you can turn off - RAID, devfs, NFS, etc. > > It's equally likely that you're tripping over some other kernel module's > use-after-free or chase-the-wrong-pointer bug. I've seen a lot more bugfixes > for *those* on this list than cases where "I turned off nvidia and it started > working". The difference is that I can look at those while I can't look at nvidias driver. Pretty simple.