Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:10:33 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 14:39 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:21:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Petri Kaukasoina wrote: > > > > me up), and that seems to show the corruption going way way back (ie going > > > > back to Linux-2.6.5 at least, according to one tester). > > > > > > That was a Fedora kernel. Has anyone seen the corruption in vanilla 2.6.18 > > > (or older)? > > > > Well, that was a really _old_ fedora kernel. I guarantee you it didn't > > have the page throttling patches in it, those were written this summer. So > > it would either have to be Fedora carrying around another patch that just > > happens to result in the same corruption for _years_, or it's the same > > bug. > > The only notable VM patch in Fedora kernels of that vintage that I recall > was Ingo's 4g/4g thing.
which does tlb flushes *all the time* so that even rules out (well almost) a stale tlb somewhere...
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