Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Patch to fixe Data Acess error in dup_fd | From | Sharyathi Nagesh <> | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:33:16 +0530 |
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On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 00:15 -0800, Vadim Lobanov wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 13:08 +0530, Sharyathi Nagesh wrote: > > This is very interesting: after reading through I am feeling there is high chance this > > could as well be a memory corruption issue. But if the issue is memory getting corrupted > > what could be the possible reasons. > > I had observed random slab corruption issues in the machine, could > > that may have resulted in corruption, we may be opening up larger issues > > here about which I am not much aware of, > > I'm guessing that you've already tried this, but it never hurts to be > sure: does this machine pass memtest? :) Haven't run memtest will run and check if the problem gets recreated.
> > The kernel version on which it is tested is: 2.6.18-1 (Distro > > variant) > > Unless someone recognizes special magic values from the register dumps > to point at any particular part of the kernel, the corruption could be > coming from almost anywhere. If noone has any better guesses, then > narrowing down the problem might be worthwhile: grab a vanilla > non-distro 2.6.18-1 kernel (from kernel.org) and see if you can > reproduce the problem with that, and then try to find the previous > release where the problem disappears. Or use git instead, which folks > say can do this bisection process rather well. :) > > Thanks, > -- Vadim Lobanov >
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