Re: [problem captured] Re: cerberus on 2.4.17-rc2 UP

[marc. h.]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:33:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > > end_request: buffer-list destroyed
> > > hda1: bad access: block=12440, count=-8
> > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 12440
> > > hda1: bad access: block=12448, count=-16
> > 
> > That looks like a race in the IDE/block layer (or somewhere above it maybe)
> > Someone trashed a request in progress.
> > 
> > Other people have reported it too. Its clearly a kernel race
> 
> Yes, I can generate it at will on two quite different IDE machines
> with the run-bash-shared-mapping script from
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ext3-tools.tar.gz

does this mean it's an ext3 bug? (haven't tried to reproduce it using ext2)

> It's on my list of things-to-do, filed under "hard".  It even happens
> on uniprocessor, with unmask_irq=0.

yes. my machine is UP and unmask_irq is 0.

> Interestingly, I _think_ it only ever occurs against the
> swap device.  But I need to confirm this.  Marc, do you
> have swap on /dev/hda1?

nope. hda1 is /.

-m

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