On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 03:29, Mihai RUSU wrote:
> 
> well cum era faza aia ?? itworksforme :)

:-P

> si 2.4.9 nu a zis nimic in afara ca imi umple logurile cu sending pkt too
> big to self (de la driverul de eepro100 din kernel)

Uite unu' care vede probleme pe 2.4.9 fara XFS:

We've been seeing some corruption with 2.4.9 without XFS.

The last one I looked closely at we have a thread that has just
allocated an inode, alloc_inode, which gets it from the inode_cachep
kmem_cache_t. The inode is within a certain page that is full of
characters that were written by syslog to /var/log/messages.

I chased the inode_cachep slab_t structures and there is one next
pointer that points to the start of a page (the next page after the one
the inode is in). This is wrong as these pointers are offset from the
start of a page. I followed all the prev pointers and all the slab_t's
are correct and I can see where the bad next pointer is. For this
problem, many fields in the inode are OK but the dentry list is bad.
Oopsed  in d_instantiate.

We have had a few scatterred oopses for a few releases (2.4.7, 2.4.8,
and now 2.4.9). This is the first one I really chased down in detail to
see that it looked like something went wrong in the inode_cachep. I'm
wondering if there isn't a bug somewhere in the way the slabs are freed
(if all elements are no longer available) racing with a corresnding
allocate. Or, maybe someone freed an inode twice or ...

Anyway, just chimming in that we are seeing memory corruption on 2.4.9,
too.

-- 
Florin Andrei

"In theory, under the new computer security law, anyone whose computer
was infected by Nimda/CodeRed could be imprisoned for life -- the new
law says nothing about intent. So, basically we would have a few million
Microsoft Windows users serving life sentences..." - Dan Hollis

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