linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-mm1

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Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:00:20 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-mm1

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > >Do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM turned on? I think we miss clearning 
> > >BH_New in some places, thus causing an error path to zero the block 
> > >incorrectly if we hit an error that CONFIG_DEBUG_VM makes much more 
> > >likely.
> > Yes, I have. Will retry without it and let you know if the problem goes
> > away.
> Thanks.

OK, seems like CONFIG_DEBUG_VM doesn't influence the bug much -- I can't 
see any difference in behavior without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM - resolv.conf gets 
corrupted upon boot, ctags -R is still very reliable command to produce 
the corruption, etc.

Neither 2.6.19 nor 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 did this.

.config is at http://www.jikos.cz/jikos/junk/.config

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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