Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Recurring Oops in 2.2.12-20smp plus ext2_free_blocks. | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:22:34 +0100 | From | Ralph Corderoy <> |
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Hi,
Alan Cox wrote: > > I'd like to find more detail of the rare corruption so I can see if > > it matches what we're experiencing, is it more likely with an SMP > > machine, etc. Is there an archive of patches that go into a > > particular version anywhere? > > No but all pre releases can be found in > pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/.. > > There are a lot of other ways you can see stuff that results in > dcache corruption that isnt the cause - everything from hardware to > scribbles by drivers
If it was hardware, say one of the two processors was flaky, wouldn't I expect to see corrupted pointers being dereferenced in other sections of code or is the dcache data structure particular susceptible?
Ralph.
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