From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262194AbUERBms (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 21:42:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262213AbUERBms (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 21:42:48 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:34492 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262194AbUERBmq (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 21:42:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:42:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Larry McVoy Cc: elenstev@mesatop.com, mason@suse.com, torvalds@osdl.org, lm@bitmover.com, wli@holomorphy.com, hugh@veritas.com, adi@bitmover.com, support@bitmover.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.) Message-Id: <20040517184208.2206e8c4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040518013439.GA23497@work.bitmover.com> References: <200405132232.01484.elenstev@mesatop.com> <1084828124.26340.22.camel@spc0.esa.lanl.gov> <20040517142946.571a3e91.akpm@osdl.org> <200405171752.08400.elenstev@mesatop.com> <20040517171330.7d594eb1.akpm@osdl.org> <20040518013439.GA23497@work.bitmover.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I'd really like to see this happen on some other machine though. It'd be > > funny if you have a dud disk drive or something. > > We can easily rule that out. Steven, do a > > dd if=/dev/zero of=USE_SOME_SPACE bs=1048576 count=500 > > which will eat up 500 MB and should eat up any bad blocks. I _really_ > doubt it is a bad disk. Yes, me too. The sensitivity to CONFIG_PREEMPT makes that unlikely. Two things I'm not clear on: a) Has is been established that CONFIG_PREEMPT causes ppp to fail? b) Has the file corruption been observed when PPP was not in use at all?