linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-rc3-git3 - XFS - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000078

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Message-ID: <20060807143416.A2501392@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:34:16 +1000
From:	Nathan Scott <nathans@....com>
To:	"Tony.Ho" <linux@...center.cn>
Cc:	jesper.juhl@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-git3 - XFS - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000078

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:05:43PM +0800, Tony.Ho wrote:
> I'm sorry about prev mail. I test on a wrong kernel.
> The panic is not appear again,

Thanks for trying it, but I don't think that earlier patch is right.
I'll send out a new, improved patch to everyone who's reported this,
soon (tomorrow, hopefully).

> but random delete performance looks very bad.

This will be unrelated, and is probably due to the fact that we now
enable write barriers by default.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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