linux-kernel - Re: xfs problems (possibly after upgrading from linux kernel 2.6.27.10 to .14)

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Message-ID: <20090219120158.GA1747@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:01:58 +0100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@....mpg.de>,
	"xfs@....sgi.com" <xfs@....sgi.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xfs problems (possibly after upgrading from linux kernel 2.6.27.10 to .14)

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:19:25PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:36:59AM +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> > >> plus a few more nodes showing the same characteristics 
> > > 
> > > Hmmmm. Did this show up in 2.6.27.10? Or did it start occurring only
> > > after you upgraded from .10 to .14?
> > 
> > As far as I can see this only happened after the upgrade about 14 days
> > ago. What strikes me odd is that we only had this occurring massively on
> > Monday and Tuesday this week.
> > 
> > I don't know if a certain access pattern could trigger this somehow.
> 
> I suspect so. We've already had XFS trigger one bug in the new
> lockless pagecache code, and the fix for that went in 2.6.27.11 -
> between the good version and the version that you've been seeing
> these memory corruptions on. I'm wondering if that fix exposed or
> introduced another bug that you've hit....

Highly unlikely. It only introduces constraints on how the
compiler may generate code, so it would have to be a compiler
bug to cause a bug I think.

I wonder how long you've been running with 2.6.27 based kernels
without corruption?
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