Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:07:02 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: XFS filesystem corruption on the arm(el) architecture |
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:06:45PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > This is probably the vmap cache aliasing problem that we paid a bit of > attention to a few months ago, no?
Shouldn't the cachepolicy switch take care of that? But yes, there are various problems with I/O on vmap regions with virtually indexed caches, see:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-arch/msg04301.html
http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/JapanTechnicalJamboree21?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=celf_discussions.pdf
Actually, looking again at the second document it shows exactly the symptoms you're seeing.
> > -Eric > > ---end quoted text---
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