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Message-ID: <1287521923.2198.2.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:58:43 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	pacman@...h.dhis.org
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:10 -0500, pacman@...h.dhis.org wrote:
> 
> So what type of driver, firmware, or hardware bug puts a 16-bit 1000Hz
> timer
> in memory, and does it in little-endian instead of the CPU's native
> byte
> order? And why does it stop doing it some time during the early init
> scripts,
> shortly after the root filesystem fsck?
> 
> I have not yet attempted to repeat the experiment. If it is
> repeatable, I'll
> probe more deeply into those init scripts later. I'm looking hard at
> /etc/rcS.d/S11hwclock.sh 

Stinks of USB...

Ben.


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