From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754661AbYIHUE2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753425AbYIHUEV (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:04:21 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:58175 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753417AbYIHUEU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:04:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:03:52 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Cc: "Greg KH" , "Linux kernel" , "Andrew Morton" , , Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25.17 Message-ID: <20080908210352.2b0cd70e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20080908143516.GA7311@suse.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > If I remove one of the CPUs, there is no file-system corruption > so I fear that there is some lock missing somewhere in the > serial ATA driver code (ata_piix or sata_sil). All the logic and locking is in the core code so would show up on all sorts of boxes. You say you are using sata_sil - is this on an Nvidia board ? > If anybody has anything to test with my setup, I can readily > test both with and without the two CPUs. Can you duplicate this with the drives just on the ata_piix ? Alan