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SubjectRe: NFS oops in 2.6.26rc4
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On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 03:37:01PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>
>>> Something else of note which I hadn't seen before, usually things
>>> lock
>>> up just after that first oops. For some reason, today it survived
>>> a little longer, but things really went downhill fast.
>>> It survived a 'dmesg ; scp dmesg davej@gelk', and then wedged solid.
>>> So as well as the oops, it seems we're corrupting memory too.
>>> For reference, this kernel has both SLUB_DEBUG and PAGEALLOC_DEBUG
>>> enabled.
>>
>> I haven't seen this kind of problem here with .26, but yes, it does
>> look like something is clobbering memory during an NFS mount.
>>
>> I introduced some NFS mount parsing changes in this commit range:
>>
>> 2d767432..82d101d5
>>
>> A quick bisect should show which, if any of these, is the guilty
>> party. If any of these are the problem, I suspect it's 3f8400d1.
>
> I didn't get time to try this out yet (hopefully tomorrow).
> In the meantime, we've just gotten word of another user seeing memory
> corruption with nfs - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449958

449958 could very well be the same problem. The stack traceback is a
lot cleaner than the one you originally sent, but there are a lot of
similarities. (I doubt this is related to symlinks, as the comment
suggests).

Is commit 86d61d863 applied to the current rawhide kernel?

--
Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com


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