Re: crypto-loop + highmen -> random crashes in -test11

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 12:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I get random crashes/corruption/ init kills when I use cryptoloop on
> > this highmem enabled ppc machine.
> 
> People have reported cryptoloop+highmem crashes on ia32 as well.  I'm not
> sure if that was with -mm though.
> 
> > Applying the loop-* patches at
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test10/2.6.0-test10-mm1/broken-out
> > 
> > seem to fix this problem (at least I did not get any crash due to
> > cryptoloop in the last 2 days)
[...]
> Nice, but I don't know why those patches fixed it. hrm.
> 

no idea. all I can say is that it cryptoloop pretends to work reliably since 3 days...

Soeren

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