Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 2004 20:41:53 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.) |
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Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com> wrote: > > At 02:53 AM 15/05/2004, Andy Isaacson wrote: > >That corruption size really does make me think of network packets, so > >I'm tempted to blame it on PPP. Can you find out the MTU of your PPP > >link? "ifconfig ppp0" or something like that. > > 1352 bytes coule be remarkably close to the TCP MSS . . . > perhaps there is some interaction with ppp where there is an overrun / lost > packet and the TCP window is mistakenly advanced?
Steve, if it's a memory stomp then perhaps CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB might pick it up.
It seems awfully deterministic though. - 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/
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