Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:37:45 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: corruption |
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On Fri, Dec 01 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > mmmm... choc-chip. > > > > > > With the above patch applied the machine crashed after an hour. Crashed > > > a second time during the e2fsck. gdb backtrace: > > > > Very interesting. IDE / SCSI? > > hmm.. Overlapping emails. > > The crash with e2fsck was easily repeatable with the above patch. Just > dirty a few buffers and run /sbin/sync. It's due to the __make_request > queue_head thing which you fixed in test12-pre3. Yes, this was IDE.
Ah ok, I thought this was on test12-pre3.
> However the original problem of a list_del being performed on a wild > pointer is being seen on SCSI systems. I expect the above patch will > catch it if it's still happening.
Indeed, and I don't think it's request queue_head related anymore. I will look forward to seeing a trace, though :-)
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