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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sandeen@sandeen.net
Cc: matorola@gmail.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [sparc64] crc32c misbehave
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:44:19 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170601.174419.2151404855471358626.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170531.124916.1406665885250072302.davem@davemloft.net>

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 12:49:16 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 11:31:10 -0500
> 
>> On 5/31/17 11:19 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> On 5/31/17 10:53 AM, David Miller wrote:
>>>> From: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 14:56:52 +0300
>>>>
>>>>> While debugging occasional crc32c checksum errors with xfs disk reads on
>>>>> sparc64 (T5 [sun4v] 3.6 GHz CPU ldom, debian unstable/sid), Eric have found
>>>>> that crc32c sometimes returns wrong checksum for data. Eric made a simple
>>>>> test kernel module (included), which produce the following results on my
>>>>> sparc64 machines:
>>> 
>>> cc: linux-xfs, because this problem cropped up on xfs/sparc.
>> 
>> FWIW, the testcase (module which does
>> 
>> 	crc = crc32c(CRC_SEED, data, 512);
>> 
>> 1 million times in a loop on the same data, and printk's if
>> the result ever changes) does not fail on x86_64 or ARM
>> (well, not after a gcc bug was fixed on ARM ...)
> 
> Is the machine doing things that would cause crc32c() operations in
> interrupts (SCTP protocol traffic) or on other cpus?
> 
> That's the danger in comparing other machines, the context and what's
> running on them is different.

Ok, I can reproduce this bug on my systems.  I'll see if I can figure out
what is going on.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-01 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CADxRZqzgaL4ew6PVek3WBsdwo6GcT0ORx=7h+6p0V3NAr8qF+w@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <CADxRZqzNTB1n0g1r_2rLsjifHpJ+_x1WPxNOSqEcHbi74jHi5w@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <20170531.115335.213691069712156732.davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-31 16:19     ` [sparc64] crc32c misbehave Eric Sandeen
2017-05-31 16:31       ` Eric Sandeen
2017-05-31 16:49         ` David Miller
2017-06-01 21:44           ` David Miller [this message]
2017-06-02  1:57             ` David Miller
2017-06-02  2:10               ` Eric Sandeen
2017-06-02  3:33                 ` David Miller
2017-06-02  3:34                   ` Eric Sandeen
2017-06-06 19:05           ` David Miller
2017-06-06 19:09             ` Eric Sandeen

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