From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750959AbVHLKnw (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:43:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750965AbVHLKnw (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:43:52 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:21898 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750957AbVHLKnv (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:43:51 -0400 Message-ID: <42FC7D5E.8020604@namesys.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:43:42 +0400 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Organization: Namesys User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Coady CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell?? References: <54nnf1tv8722aq6med3mlr4mvg7nli0r09@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <54nnf1tv8722aq6med3mlr4mvg7nli0r09@4ax.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Grant Coady wrote: > Greetings, > > Situation is dataloss with no errors logged. > > Test: unpack 2.6.12 tarball from NFS mount source, diff against > previous attempt: > > $ diff -Nrup linux-2.6.12.old linux-2.6.12 > Binary files linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h and linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h differ > diff -Nrup linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/apc.h linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/apc.h > --- linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/apc.h 2005-06-18 05:48:29.000000000 +1000 > +++ linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/apc.h 2005-06-18 05:48:29.000000000 +1000 > @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ > #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30 > > #define APC_REGMASK 0x01 > -define APC_BPMASK 0x03 > +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03 > > /* > * IDLE - CPU standby values (set to initiate standby) > diff -Nrup linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/svr4.h linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/svr4.h > --- linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/svr4.h 2005-06-18 05:48:29.000000000 +1000 > +++ linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/svr4.h 2005-06-18 05:48:29.000000000 +1000 > @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ typedef struct { /* signa > > /* Values for siginfo.code */ > #define SVR4_SINOINFO 32767 > -/* Siginfo, sucker expects bunch of information on those paramEters */ > +/* Siginfo, sucker expects bunch of information on those parameters */ > typedef union { > char total_size [128]; > struct { > > > Seems like three bit errors for source tree. Other times I've noted > compile failures where unpacking source tree fresh would 'fix' error. > I'd previously assumed that I accidentally killed source tree with > 'cp -al ...' copies but I've had a segfault on that operation, hence > I do not know if this be NIC or filesystem (reiserfs on via SATA). > > > Today disabled onboard via-rhine and used Intel pro/100 + e100 driver, > several source trees unpacked identically, running 2.6.12.4 or 2.4.31-hf3 > > The fault occurs on 2.4 latest or 2.6 latest only on particular target > box, so problem is not the NFS server. > > How to test and isolate this error is in NIC driver, SATA driver or > filesystem? > Could it be that tarbal on NFS server changed? It is not very likely that error in kernel drivers fixed typos in source code. > Thanks, > Grant. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >