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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:04:44 -0800
From: Lawrence Walton <lawrence@the-penguin.otak.com>
To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: corruption
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Andrew Morton [andrewm@uow.edu.au] wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > I bet this'll catch it:
> > >
> > > --- include/linux/list.h.orig   Fri Dec  1 08:33:36 2000
> > > +++ include/linux/list.h        Fri Dec  1 08:33:55 2000
> > > @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
> > >  static __inline__ void list_del(struct list_head *entry)
> > >  {
> > >         __list_del(entry->prev, entry->next);
> > > +       entry->next = entry->prev = 0;
> > >  }
> > >
> > >  /**
> > >
> > > First person to send a ksymoops trace gets a cookie.
> > 
> > mmmm... choc-chip.
> > 
> > With the above patch applied the machine crashed after an hour. Crashed
> > a second time during the e2fsck.  gdb backtrace:
> > 
> 
> 
> This sync_buffers corruption is fixed by Jens' patch, which is present
> in test12-pre3.
> 
> However it is possible that the original list_head-based corruption which
> I reported will not be fixed by this patch. This is because none of the
> structure offsets match up with what I observed, and because Lawrence's
> system is "SCSI-only" - no SCSI drivers are headactive.
> 
> Lawrence, did you see this problem with test12-pre3?


Yes all of my current problems are with pre3;
Is there anything you would like me to test
specific?
The best way to cause  problems so far is 
compiling mozilla.
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