Re: bio linked list corruption.
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Oct 26 2016 - 12:48:48 EST
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
Did the bad page map trace have any registers that looked like they
had 0xd0d0d0d0d0d0 in them?
I assume not, but worth checking.
> Heisenbugs man, literally the worst.
I know you already had this in some email, but I lost it. I think you
narrowed it down to a specific set of system calls that seems to
trigger this best. fallocate and xattrs or something?
Linus