From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm4
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:26:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060630162625.2fe3b6cc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44A57970.7020501@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> With the attached .config, the kernel reliably panics when someone
> issues a 'sync' (or the kernel decides to write back its buffers):
>
> reiser4 panicked cowardly: reiser4[sync(8465)]: commit_current_atom (fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c:1062)[zam-597]:
> Kernel panic - not syncing: reiser4[sync(8465)]: commit_current_atom (fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c:1062)[zam-597]:
>
> (this is all that is printed)
>
> This happens only with Reiser4 and libata ata_piix driver; it does not
> happen with Reiser4 and 'old' IDE piix driver. Other fs are also not
> affected. I have no idea how to track this, I hope someone else does :)
>
> Hardware is a pentium-m laptop with ICH4 pata.
>
Interesting, thanks.
My guess would be that there's a difference in the way in which the two
drivers handle write barriers, and the new driver has confused the reiser4
code.
Are you able to identify any earlier -mm kernel which ran OK with reiser4
and ata_piix?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-30 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-29 8:36 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 9:44 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Benoit Boissinot
2006-06-29 11:25 ` 2.6.17-mm one process gets stuck in infinite loop in the kernel Helge Hafting
2006-06-29 17:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 20:39 ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2006-06-29 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-30 12:48 ` Helge Hafting
2006-06-30 21:54 ` Helge Hafting
2006-06-30 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-01 10:58 ` Helge Hafting
2006-07-01 11:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 11:44 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Reuben Farrelly
2006-06-29 11:45 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Reuben Farrelly
2006-06-29 17:52 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-06-30 7:18 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Reuben Farrelly
2006-06-30 7:33 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 17:53 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Jesse Brandeburg
2006-06-29 19:05 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-06-30 23:53 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Jesse Brandeburg
2006-07-01 0:12 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-07-01 0:17 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Jesse Brandeburg
2006-07-01 0:31 ` 2.6.17-mm4 john stultz
2006-07-01 17:33 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Jesse Brandeburg
2006-07-01 17:56 ` 2.6.17-mm4 john stultz
2006-07-01 23:57 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-07-02 2:45 ` 2.6.17-mm4 john stultz
2006-07-02 3:19 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-07-02 3:37 ` 2.6.17-mm4 john stultz
2006-07-01 0:52 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-07-01 18:18 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Jesse Brandeburg
2006-07-01 0:22 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 19:20 ` [-mm patch] drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c: make 2 functions static Adrian Bunk
2006-06-29 19:20 ` [-mm patch] fs/nfs/: " Adrian Bunk
2006-06-29 19:36 ` Possible circular locking dependency detected in Reiser4 Andrew James Wade
2006-06-29 20:39 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-29 20:43 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Dave Jones
2006-06-29 20:46 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-29 20:49 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Dave Jones
2006-06-29 20:57 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-29 20:58 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 21:41 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-29 21:09 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Ingo Molnar
2006-06-29 23:05 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Ingo Molnar
2006-06-30 10:07 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Alan Cox
2006-06-30 9:50 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Ingo Molnar
2006-06-30 9:54 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-30 11:01 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andreas Mohr
2006-06-30 12:14 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Alan Cox
2006-06-30 17:27 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Dave Jones
2006-06-30 17:52 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Alan Cox
2006-06-29 21:40 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Chris Rode
2006-06-29 22:18 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 23:27 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Ingo Molnar
2006-06-30 19:20 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Manuel Lauss
2006-06-30 23:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-07-01 7:12 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Manuel Lauss
2006-06-30 20:16 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-01 11:11 ` 2.6.17-mm4 raid bugs & traces Helge Hafting
2006-07-01 11:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-01 16:25 ` Helge Hafting
2006-07-02 5:38 ` Reuben Farrelly
2006-07-02 18:46 ` Helge Hafting
2006-07-03 13:10 ` David Greaves
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-30 10:07 2.6.17-mm4 Chuck Ebbert
2006-06-30 10:22 ` 2.6.17-mm4 Ingo Molnar
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