Ville Herva wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:00:53PM -0800, you [Andrew Morton] claimed:
> > Ville Herva wrote:
> > >
> > > >>EIP; c0131ce0 <sync_page_buffers+10/b0> <=====
> >
> > Looks like a corrupted `next' pointer in the page's buffer_head
> > ring. Your report is identical to Todd Eigenschink's repeatable
> > oops. http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.3/0689.html
> <snip>
> > I am able to trigger this in around ten minutes on 2.4.13 and
> > later kernels. However 2.4.13-pre6 ran the test for nine hours
> > and did not fail.
>
> Out of curiosity: what kind of load do you use to trigger it?
Massive VM load and ext3. I've found the buffer-list destroyed
bug. It's incorrect buffer locking in ext3. It used to work,
sleazily, but blockdev-in-pagecache pulled its pants down.
> > I've put the 2.4.13-pre6 -> 2.4.13 diff at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/1.gz
>
> Seems your diff didn't include some bits (Maintainers changes and something
> else.)
>
> Anyhow, I compiled 2.4.13pre6 and it collapsed in just a few minutes. My
> best guess is that network card pci dma is somehow fubar, and it writes
> stuff to where it shouldn't.
OK. Looks like they're different things - you have hardware problems,
I have brain problems.
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