On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 12:50, Dave Boutcher wrote: > Hi, > > I'm chasing a wierd memory corruption problem on a ppc64 system. The > first byte of a slab_t structure keeps getting stepped on (zeroed, > actually.) This happens during a testcase that copies a large file > called "junk" between file systems (a mix of ext2 and reiser) on a > 2.4.13 kernel. I know that's REALLY REALLY old, but it's whats in > SuSE's SLES-7 release that we have customers running... > > In every case, the page immediately preceding the slab_t has exactly the > same data in it, and it looks like some kind of directory structure > (note the presence of the word "junk", along with ".." and "." towards > the end.)
Any chance the test case involves renames? -chris
