Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:48:34 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: File corruption when using kernels 2.6.18+ |
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Hi Neil,
On 10/3/07, Neil Romig <neil@romig.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Thanks for your help on this. I have narrowed it down to commit > > > "c22ce143d15eb288543fe9873e1c5ac1c01b69a1 x86: cache pollution aware > > > __copy_from_user_ll()". This fits with the errors I'm getting, so now I need > > > to find out if I can safely ignore this patch, or does it have to be modified? > > > This is my first Linux bug in many years of simply using it, so I'm a little > > > nervous!
A some point in time, I wrote: > > Just to make sure, if you disable CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY, the > > corruption goes away?
On 10/3/07, Neil Romig <neil@romig.demon.co.uk> wrote: > It took some fiddling to disable (edit arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu) but that has fixed it. > Many thanks! > > Does this need to be reported as a bug? Or should the kernel config scripts be > changed to enable this option to be easily turned off?
Looks like a bug to me. Can we have your /proc/cpuinfo too?
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