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

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Message-Id: <201103050958.22167.roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 5 Mar 2011 09:58:19 +0100
From:	Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	thomas@...llstrom.ca, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File/memory corruption in 2.6.37?

Le jeudi 3 mars 2011 00:52:26, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:31:00 -0700
> 
> Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@...llstrom.ca> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Any results yet?
> 
> Which filesystem is being used?  I've seen at least one similar report
> for reiserfs.

Yes in my case kmail+git over reiserfs eat my data quite fast

That is really strange is a simple shell loop : while true; do sync; sleep 1; done; reduce the problem.

Bastien
 
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