Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161002AbWBHGiR (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 01:38:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030573AbWBHGiR (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 01:38:17 -0500 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:53522 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030569AbWBHGiR (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 01:38:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:37:54 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Chris Stromsoe Cc: Roberto Nibali , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bad pmd filemap.c, oops; 2.4.30 and 2.4.32 Message-ID: <20060208063754.GA13668@w.ods.org> References: <43C2C482.6090904@drugphish.ch> <43C2E243.5000904@drugphish.ch> <20060115224642.GA10069@w.ods.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 30 On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:32:45PM -0800, Chris Stromsoe wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Chris Stromsoe wrote: > >On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Willy TARREAU wrote: > >> > >>Thanks for the precision. So logically we should expect it to break > >>sooner or later ? > > > >It is the same .config as one that crashed before, except that it has > >DEBUG_SLAB defined. If it does not crash, then adding pci=noacpi to the > >command fixes the problem for me. > > For what it's worth, I'm fairly certain at this point that the problem > was hardware related. After a week of uptime with 2.6 we had another pmd > error and oops. We then replaced the system board and one of the CPUs > and have not seen any problems since. Chris, thank you very much for this useful feedback. Now we're sure that it's not worth investigating on the aic7xxx driver for any potential memory corruption bug. > -Chris Regards, Willy - 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/