linux-kernel - Re: File/memory corruption in 2.6.37?

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Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:10:28 -0700
From:	Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@...llstrom.ca>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File/memory corruption in 2.6.37?

On March 2, 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:31:00 -0700
> 
> Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@...llstrom.ca> wrote:
> > On February 25, 2011, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > > On February 25, 2011, you wrote:
> > > > > Ever since I upgraded to 2.6.37 from 2.6.36, that kmail's folder
> > > > > indexes are being corrupted fairly regularly. Far more often than
> > > > > is usual (almost never). Several a day in fact are being
> > > > > corrupted. I can only imagine that this isn't the only corruption
> > > > > happening and it is worrying.
> > > > 
> > > > Forgot to give any kind of useful info:
> > > > 
> > > > System: Lenovo SL500 laptop, intel core2duo T9400 cpu, 4G ram, gm45
> > > > intel gfx
> > > > 
> > > > running debian sid, with the current debian 2.6.37 kernel, was
> > > > running a hand rolled 2.6.36 kernel with autogroup applied and
> > > > didn't have these issues.
> > > 
> > > Could you verify that with an hand rolled 2.6.37.2 ?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > 	tglx
> > 
> > I suppose it won't hurt to give it a try.
> 
> Any results yet?
> 
> Which filesystem is being used?  I've seen at least one similar report
> for reiserfs.

So far I haven't noticed the corruption with 2.6.37.2, and I'm using ext3. I'm 
going to test with the debian kernel again soon here to see if the problem 
come back. I was just seeing if maybe it only happens when I've been using the 
system for a long time. I tend to have a lot of issues with this laptop once 
its been running for a long enough period (typically related to the intel_gfx 
drivers leaking and causing crashes or general unstableness). I had to restart 
my laptop a couple days ago, due to it not noticing the resume image.. but I 
didn't notice any corruption before that.

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
thomas@...llstrom.ca
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