Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754955AbWL1UKt (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:10:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754956AbWL1UKt (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:10:49 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58582 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754948AbWL1UKs (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:10:48 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Dave Jones Cc: Linus Torvalds , Petri Kaukasoina , Marc Haber , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , andrei.popa@i-neo.ro, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins , Florian Weimer , Martin Michlmayr In-Reply-To: <20061228193943.GC8940@redhat.com> References: <45861E68.3060403@yahoo.com.au> <20061217214308.62b9021a.akpm@osdl.org> <20061219085149.GA20442@torres.l21.ma.zugschlus.de> <20061228180536.GB7385@torres.zugschlus.de> <20061228190541.GA23128@elektroni.phys.tut.fi> <20061228193943.GC8940@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:10:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1167336633.20929.31.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1223 Lines: 29 On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 14:39 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:21:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Petri Kaukasoina wrote: > > > > me up), and that seems to show the corruption going way way back (ie going > > > > back to Linux-2.6.5 at least, according to one tester). > > > > > > That was a Fedora kernel. Has anyone seen the corruption in vanilla 2.6.18 > > > (or older)? > > > > Well, that was a really _old_ fedora kernel. I guarantee you it didn't > > have the page throttling patches in it, those were written this summer. So > > it would either have to be Fedora carrying around another patch that just > > happens to result in the same corruption for _years_, or it's the same > > bug. > > The only notable VM patch in Fedora kernels of that vintage that I recall > was Ingo's 4g/4g thing. which does tlb flushes *all the time* so that even rules out (well almost) a stale tlb somewhere... - 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/