Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 May 2004 07:14:27 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | 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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On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:17:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Found null start 0x1550b01 end 0x1551000 len 0x4ff line 535587 > > Found null start 0x2030b01 end 0x2031000 len 0x4ff line 639039 > > Found null start 0x2330b01 end 0x2331000 len 0x4ff line 663611 > > The fact that it's always zeroes, and it's an strange number but it always > ends up being page-aligned at the _end_ makes me strongly suspect that we > have one of the "don't write back data past i_size" things wrong.
Isn't it weird that it is starting at 0xb01 and has the same length at three different offsets? That's a definite pattern and might be a clue. And note that the weird starting offset plus the length is a page size. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - 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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