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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:48:30 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz> To: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Neil Brown wrote: > As Andrew correctly pointed out, this bit error is not a RAM problem. It > is actually the low bit of a counter a spinlock that was decremented > just before the WARN_ON. So it simply indicates that the inode had > already been freed, which I think we knew already. Unfortunately I still > have no idea why that inode had been freed but was still referenced by a > dentry.... How repeatable as this bug? How did you narrow it down to > that patch? Did you use git-bisect or something else? When this happened, I just looked at the broken-out patches in -mm, which ones touch the md subsystem, found your patch, reverse-applied it, and this stopped happening. It seemed to be 100% reproducible - happened on every boot of FC6 system, so it was probably triggered by some raid/lvm command executed from init scripts after boot, but I didn't examine it further. As soon as I get to the machine where this happens, I will try to narrow it down to the exact userspace command that triggers it and will let you know (probably this evening). -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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