From: Neil Romig <neil@romig.demon.co.uk>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com
Subject: Re: File corruption when using kernels 2.6.18+
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:42:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4703E287.3070705@romig.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020710022218x147ffc74y477c0a1be3e60d66@mail.gmail.com>
Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> On 10/3/07, Neil Romig <neil@romig.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Thanks for your help on this. I have narrowed it down to commit
>> "c22ce143d15eb288543fe9873e1c5ac1c01b69a1 x86: cache pollution aware
>> __copy_from_user_ll()". This fits with the errors I'm getting, so now I need
>> to find out if I can safely ignore this patch, or does it have to be modified?
>> This is my first Linux bug in many years of simply using it, so I'm a little
>> nervous!
>
> Just to make sure, if you disable CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY, the
> corruption goes away?
>
It took some fiddling to disable (edit arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu) but that has fixed it. Many thanks!
Does this need to be reported as a bug? Or should the kernel config scripts be changed to enable this option to be easily turned off?
Neil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-30 15:40 File corruption when using kernels 2.6.18+ Neil Romig
2007-09-30 16:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-02 21:05 ` Neil Romig
2007-10-03 5:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-03 18:42 ` Neil Romig [this message]
2007-10-03 18:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-03 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 19:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-03 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-04 1:11 ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-10-03 20:30 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-04 18:34 ` Neil Romig
2007-10-02 22:30 ` Chuck Ebbert
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2007-10-04 2:59 ` Robert Hancock
2007-10-04 3:39 ` Linus Torvalds
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