Re: bio linked list corruption.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Oct 26 2016 - 12:30:31 EST


On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 06:39:03PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Completely untested. Maybe there's some reason we can't write to the
> > whole thing like that?
>
> That hack boots and seems to work for me, but doesn't show anything.
>
> Dave, mind just trying that oneliner?

I gave this a go last thing last night. It crashed within 5 minutes,
but it was one we've already seen (the bad page map trace) with nothing
additional that looked interesting. I rebooted, and tried again and
went to bed.

12 hours later, it's still doing it's thing.

Heisenbugs man, literally the worst.

Dave