Re: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10 uniproc <-> SMP

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:46:06 +0200 (MET DST)


From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:57:53 +0200, Mike Thomi <mthomi@datanetworks.ch> said:

> Could it be:
> - a buffer problem?
> - something about the changes with cache handling? page cache instead of
> buffer cache since 2.2.7?

It seems to be too non-specific to be that.

> - something with "egcs-1.1.2 release"

Possibly: can you try with an older compiler?

--Stephen

I would suspect disable_irq_nosync / mtrr / other lowlevel stuff.
(There have been other changes, but it seems to me that for example
bugs in the dcache stuff would affect more people.)

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