Re: [discuss] A question about GART aperture unmap

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 07:06:31 EST


> Sorry, I missed the last sentence. This bug is reproduced by copying a
> large file(8G) and in the meanwhile compiling a linux kernel for about
> 1 to 2 days.

Ok that is then more expected. Don't know what causes the sync flood,
but data corruption is at least expected without the clear_kernel_mapping().
Just don't comment it out if you care about your data.

-Andi
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