Re: Recurring Oops in 2.2.12-20smp plus ext2_free_blocks.

2000-09-12 Thread Alan Cox
> If it was hardware, say one of the two processors was flaky, wouldn't I > expect to see corrupted pointers being dereferenced in other sections > of code or is the dcache data structure particular susceptible? The dcache has long chains of pointers and tends to show up on things like memory are

Re: Recurring Oops in 2.2.12-20smp plus ext2_free_blocks.

2000-09-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Alan Cox wrote: > > I'd like to find more detail of the rare corruption so I can see if > > it matches what we're experiencing, is it more likely with an SMP > > machine, etc. Is there an archive of patches that go into a > > particular version anywhere? > > No but all pre releases can be

Re: Recurring Oops in 2.2.12-20smp plus ext2_free_blocks.

2000-09-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, > > A two processor SMP machine has been crashing recently, sometimes it > > manages to Oops before hand. Below is the klogd output with assembly > > from gdb. The do_generic_file_read+347 Oops occurred once, the dput+77 > > Oops has occurred five times; all five are below. > > > > Does

Re: Recurring Oops in 2.2.12-20smp plus ext2_free_blocks.

2000-09-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, > A two processor SMP machine has been crashing recently, sometimes it > manages to Oops before hand. Below is the klogd output with assembly > from gdb. The do_generic_file_read+347 Oops occurred once, the dput+77 > Oops has occurred five times; all five are below. > > Does anyone recog