Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263509AbTHWR5C (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:57:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264976AbTHWRxE (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:53:04 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([209.173.204.2]:21128 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264939AbTHWRuk (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:50:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:50:36 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm3 - cp -a kills machine Message-ID: <20030823175036.GP3958@waste.org> References: <20030822015658.GD3958@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1059 Lines: 25 On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:59:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > No console message either. Repeated after taking out local APIC > > > support, same thing. > > > > Similar repeatable problems with periodic fsck on ext3 root. Appears > > not to be ext3 or loop, perhaps something IDE-related in Linus' bk > > tree added between mm2 and mm3. > > The more you can track this down, the easier it will be for us. Willing to > triangulate a bit? For example, just start testing the suspicious parts of > the patch? Doh, false alarm. This turned out to be overzealous marking of initdata (about 20 bytes!) in something I was applying locally. Apparently, -mm3 made it straddle a page boundary. -- Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : of or relating to the moon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/