Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.)

Andrew Morton
2004-05-16T21:30:21Z

Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
>
> Anyway, although the regression for my particular machine for this
> particular load may be interesting, the good news is that I've seen
> none of the failures which started this whole thread, which are relatively
> easily reproduceable with PREEMPT set.

So... would it be correct to say that with CONFIG_PREEMPT, ppp or its
underlying driver stack

a) screws up the connection and hangs and

b) scribbles on pagecache?

Because if so, the same will probably happen on SMP.