linux-kernel - Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM

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Message-Id: <20070830.213901.48806818.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:39:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	byron.bbradley@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM

From: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:12:46 +0000 (UTC)

> Anybody got any ideas of how we fix this?

I don't know how much testing XFS gets on ARM, but one thing that some
ARM chips have is D-cache aliasing problems and one thing XFS uses a
lot is virtual remapping of various data structures via vmap().

This might be what is causing the problems.
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