linux-kernel - Re: inode->i_wb

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:49:14 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Petr Tesařík <petr@...arici.cz>
Cc:	Yang Bai <hamo.by@...il.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@...oraproject.org>,
	kernel@...arici.cz
Subject: Re: inode->i_wb_list corruption.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:08:03PM +0800, Petr Tesařík wrote:

 > > i915_drm_thaw is a deep nest of functions though, so this is going to be
 > > hard to track down where that write is coming from. Because the corruption
 > > seems to happen to pages that are already allocated, we probably can't
 > > even rely on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, though it might be worth trying.
 > 
 > If it you believe it could be written by the CPU, I can try to catch the 
 > instruction that writes to this memory. My plan is as follows:

Given that the corruption pattern looks like pixel data, it's likely that
the writing is being done by the GPU, not the CPU, so debug registers
won't trap it.

	Dave
 
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