Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:44:11 -0700 | From | "Dan Williams" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5) |
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On 1/22/07, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote: > On Monday January 22, cebbert@redhat.com wrote: > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is > > > needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! > > > > > > Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying files over Samba to > > > the RAID5 running XFS. > > > > > > Any idea what happened here? > .... > > > > > Without digging too deeply, I'd say you've hit the same bug Sami Farin > > and others > > have reported starting with 2.6.19: pages mapped with kmap_atomic() > > become unmapped > > during memcpy() or similar operations. Try disabling preempt -- that > > seems to be the > > common factor. > > That is exactly the conclusion I had just come to (a kmap_atomic page > must be being unmapped during memcpy). I wasn't aware that others had > reported it - thanks for that. > > Turning off CONFIG_PREEMPT certainly seems like a good idea. > Coming from an ARM background I am not yet versed in the inner workings of kmap_atomic, but if you have time for a question I am curious as to why spin_lock(&sh->lock) is not sufficient pre-emption protection for copy_data() in this case?
> NeilBrown
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