Re: crypto-loop + highmen -> random crashes in -test11

Soeren Sonnenburg
2003-12-18T08:31:51Z

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 12:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > I get random crashes/corruption/ init kills when I use cryptoloop on
> > this highmem enabled ppc machine.
>
> People have reported cryptoloop+highmem crashes on ia32 as well. I'm not
> sure if that was with -mm though.
>
> > Applying the loop-* patches at
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test10/2.6.0-test10-mm1/broken-out
> >
> > seem to fix this problem (at least I did not get any crash due to
> > cryptoloop in the last 2 days)
[...]
> Nice, but I don't know why those patches fixed it. hrm.
>

no idea. all I can say is that it cryptoloop pretends to work reliably since 3 days...

Soeren