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Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 19:41:46 +0300
From: Indrek Kruusa <indrek.kruusa@artecdesign.ee>
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To: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: long/heavy USB fs operations panics 2.6.16.18
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Jordan Crouse wrote:
> Hi Indrek -
>
>   
>> I am investigating a problem with a little custom Geode LX board. It has 
>> external USB ide hdd as root and it panics during long/heavy/? disk 
>> operation. E.g. 'du -sk /usr' or 'bzip2 -d linux-src.tar.bz2' in my /home.
>> Simplest (I suppose) example is fsck panic during boot (output,conf 
>> attached).
>>     
>
> Is the bug recreatable every single time when you try to fsck?
> Have you tried recreating the issue without EHCI?  That should help us
> at least narrow it down to the specific USB controller.  
>
> It seems to me like something is causing trouble down somewhere in the
> MM subsystem - its almost like something is walking over sensitive parts
> of memory - but be it stack or heap, I can't tell.
>   

Duh... I have to doublecheck it but currently it seems that our BIOS 
needs a fix. I hope you haven't had much trouble with my problem report. 
I much appreciate your feedback.

Best regards,
Indrek

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