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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: byron.bbradley@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:39:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070830.213901.48806818.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb80ve$i5q$1@sea.gmane.org>

From: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:12:46 +0000 (UTC)

> Anybody got any ideas of how we fix this?

I don't know how much testing XFS gets on ARM, but one thing that some
ARM chips have is D-cache aliasing problems and one thing XFS uses a
lot is virtual remapping of various data structures via vmap().

This might be what is causing the problems.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31  3:12 XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM Byron Bradley
2007-08-31  4:39 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-09-01 22:14   ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-27 21:40     ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-02  7:38       ` David Chinner
2007-10-30  5:47     ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-30 17:54       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-30 18:14         ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-30 21:38         ` David Miller
2008-03-18  3:41           ` Eric Sandeen

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