From: Ryan Richter <ryan@tau.solarneutrino.net>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, ryan@tau.solarneutrino.net
Subject: Re: Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related?
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:53:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060109185350.GG283@tau.solarneutrino.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601090933160.7632@goblin.wat.veritas.com>
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:44:26AM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Code like that should use "set_page_dirty()", which does the appropriate
> > callbacks to the filesystem for that page. I wonder if the bug is simply
> > because the ST code just sets the dirty bit without telling anybody else
> > about it...
>
> Yes, it should be using set_page_dirty_lock(), and that is already known
> about (I have patches for this and similar sg.c, but the sg.c case is
> tougher and not yet finished); but entirely irrelevant to Ryan's case.
>
> Quite apart from the fact that he's doing backups to tape (not dirtying
> the memory from this driver), you'll find that it even passes dirty 0
> when reading into the memory (another bug; whereas sg.c conversely says
> it's always dirtying when it isn't). So there's no point in Ryan
> fiddling with the SetPageDirty.
One thing I forgot to mention was that 2.6.11.3 had the problem too when
I reverted to it. I remember now that the person who made the debian
bug report for this said it only happened with a 64-bit userspace - and
I switched from a 32- to 64-bit userspace when I did 2.6.11 -> 2.6.14
(and I'm too lazy to switch back).
To get the backups back, I just ran a recent kernel with
try_direct_io=0. If there's nothing further for me to test at this
time, I guess I'll go back to doing that until there's something to try.
Is that OK?
-ryan
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[not found] <20051129092432.0f5742f0.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-11-29 18:34 ` Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related? Ryan Richter
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511292147120.5739@kai.makisara.local>
2005-11-29 20:31 ` Ryan Richter
2005-11-29 20:48 ` Kai Makisara
2005-11-29 20:58 ` Ryan Richter
2005-11-29 21:36 ` Kai Makisara
2005-11-30 5:12 ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-01 19:18 ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-01 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 19:56 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-01 20:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-01 21:44 ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-02 18:03 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-02 18:43 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-02 19:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-02 19:44 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-02 20:40 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-03 17:29 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-06 16:08 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-06 20:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-06 20:43 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-07 18:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-08 2:26 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-12 16:54 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-12 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-12 17:45 ` James Bottomley
2005-12-12 18:04 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-12 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-12 18:24 ` James Bottomley
2005-12-15 19:09 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-16 4:01 ` James Bottomley
2005-12-17 3:31 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-26 23:42 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-27 16:21 ` Kai Makisara
2006-01-03 19:03 ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-04 17:27 ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-04 21:48 ` Kai Makisara
2006-01-05 5:40 ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-05 20:12 ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-05 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-08 22:36 ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-09 3:31 ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-09 4:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-09 5:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-09 5:45 ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-09 5:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-09 9:44 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-09 18:53 ` Ryan Richter [this message]
2006-01-09 19:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-09 20:05 ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-18 0:12 ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-18 16:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 19:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 19:51 ` [PATCH] ib: don't doublefree pages from scatterlist Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 23:13 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-03 19:53 ` [PATCH] st: " Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 20:38 ` Mike Christie
2006-02-03 21:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-04 12:10 ` Kai Makisara
2006-02-04 15:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 19:55 ` [PATCH] ipr: " Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 22:06 ` Brian King
2006-02-04 0:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-05 21:35 ` Brian King
2006-02-06 9:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-06 9:46 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-06 14:46 ` Brian King
2006-02-06 16:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-06 17:38 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-06 19:15 ` Brian King
2006-02-06 21:11 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-06 21:49 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-06 22:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-06 22:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 3:09 ` Ryan Richter
2006-02-11 22:38 ` Ryan Richter
2006-02-12 18:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-12 21:29 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-13 17:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-06 15:02 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-06 17:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 19:56 ` [PATCH] osst: " Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 21:10 ` Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related? Ryan Richter
2006-02-04 11:58 ` Kai Makisara
2006-02-04 14:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-05 22:09 ` Kai Makisara
2006-01-04 18:26 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-07 18:30 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-07 18:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-07 19:06 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-06 17:57 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-01 20:28 ` James Bottomley
2005-12-01 21:17 ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-02 13:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-02 17:59 ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-02 18:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-02 19:46 ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-02 20:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-04 9:29 ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-01 19:53 ` Ryan Richter
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