Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932520AbWCGAZi (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:25:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932521AbWCGAZi (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:25:38 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.195]:60539 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932520AbWCGAZh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:25:37 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OjCoNabt2lNE+dVdeh46BHUNcIj54KDXis5ELb8lOMqpLG0u+7OHlb0vsPDBlswEED4gf5eFynEAqEvl+CVxOvFuHQ1EBl/GrDpWKfnfOOq+VyKNj9wz/p+TmonnwqHr9BSKjIo+BpCVi+JUrVcAk0LHaOPEtFzszww0BQgJGhM= Message-ID: <9a8748490603061625o5c9d8cf1o1873b3cc700dea75@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 01:25:36 +0100 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 Cc: "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk, andrea@suse.de, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, axboe@suse.de, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200603060117.16484.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> <9a8748490603061354vaa53c72na161d26065b9302e@mail.gmail.com> <9a8748490603061501r387291f0ha10e9e9fe3c9e060@mail.gmail.com> <20060306150612.51f48efa.akpm@osdl.org> <9a8748490603061524j616bf6b3i1b6ab5354bcfe1a9@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1695 Lines: 44 On 3/7/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > On 3/7/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > "Jesper Juhl" wrote: > > > > > > > > And since 2.6.16-rc5-git8 is not experiencing problems I'd suggest you > > > > perhaps instead take a look at what's in -mm... That's where we need > > > > to work (it seems) to find the bug... > > > > > > Yes, it's very probably something in git-scsi-misc. > > > > > I would say that's correct. I just build 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 with just > > git-scsi-misc.patch reverted, and that makes the problem go away. > > Ok. I was kind of hoping that it was just a more reliable case of the > corruption that Andrew had been seeing too (which seems to be hard to > trigger in mainline too, but might exist there). > > > So now the big question is; what part(s) of git-scsi-misc is broken? > > Well, its origin is actually a git tree, so you could try the "git bisect" > approach using the > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git > > tree that the patch comes from.. > I'll give that a go tomorrow - right now I need to get some sleep. If there are other things to try, then just drop me a mail and I'll test it tomorrow. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/