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

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Message-Id: <201102251531.00363.thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
Date:	Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:31:00 -0700
From:	Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@...llstrom.ca>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File/memory corruption in 2.6.37?

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.

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