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From: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
To: "Jay L. T. Cornwall" <jay@esuna.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc5: pdflush oops under heavy disk load
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:59:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070624125957.2e27820c@osprey.hogchain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467D0EB0.9030100@esuna.co.uk>

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:14:40 +0100
"Jay L. T. Cornwall" <jay@esuna.co.uk> wrote:


> The common factor here seems to be the buffer_head circular list
> leading to invalid pointers in bh->b_this_page.
> 
> I'm beginning to suspect the Attansic L1 Gigabit Etherner driver
> (marked as EXPERIMENTAL in 2.6.22-rc5). I can't reproduce these
> panics on disk-to-disk copies or SCP across the localhost interface.
> However, SCP from a server onto either of two different HDDs hits
> these oopses fairly quickly.

How much RAM is installed in your machine?  If it's 4GB or more, does
your problem go away if you boot with mem=3000M?

Jay

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-24 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-22  0:07 Jay L. T. Cornwall
2007-06-22 14:47 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-22 15:04   ` Jay L. T. Cornwall
2007-06-23 12:14     ` Jay L. T. Cornwall
2007-06-23 17:23       ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-24  9:57         ` (Last oops is Tainted: P) " Oleg Verych
2007-06-24 10:10           ` Jay L. T. Cornwall
2007-06-24 10:57             ` Oleg Verych
2007-06-24 17:59       ` Jay Cliburn [this message]
2007-06-24 20:31         ` Jay L. T. Cornwall
2007-06-24 21:45           ` Jay Cliburn
2007-06-25 12:16             ` Attansic L1 page corruption (was: 2.6.22-rc5: pdflush oops under heavy disk load) Jay L. T. Cornwall
2007-06-25 12:42               ` Attansic L1 page corruption Jay Cliburn
2007-06-25 21:18                 ` [PATCH] atl1: disable 64bit DMA Luca Tettamanti
2007-06-25 21:36                   ` Chris Snook
2007-06-25 21:51                     ` Jay L. T. Cornwall
2007-06-25 21:57                       ` Chris Snook
2007-06-25 23:00                         ` Jay Cliburn
2007-06-25 23:17                           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-25 23:40                             ` Chris Snook
2007-06-26 21:12                             ` Luca
2007-06-27  0:16                   ` Jay Cliburn
2007-06-25 12:58               ` Attansic L1 page corruption (was: 2.6.22-rc5: pdflush oops under heavy disk load) Luca
2007-06-24 22:51   ` 2.6.22-rc5: pdflush oops under heavy disk load Jesper Juhl

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