linux-kernel - Re: ext4 corruption on alpha with 4.20.0-09062-gd8372ba8ce28

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Message-ID: <7ffcadd5-47b3-e44a-bd18-7e9f1a636f8d@linux.ee>
Date:   Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:37:24 +0200
From:   Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 corruption on alpha with 4.20.0-09062-gd8372ba8ce28

> Hum, weird. I have hard time understanding how that change could be causing
> fs corruption on Aplha but OTOH it is not completely unthinkable. With this
> commit we may migrate some block device pages we were not able to migrate
> previously and that could be causing some unexpected issue. I'll look into
> this.

To make things more interesting, it does not happen on any alpha but only one subarch
so far: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1889207.html
is my original bug report.

-- 
Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>