Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.)

From: Steven Cole (elenstev_at_mesatop.com)
Date: 05/15/04

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    To: Andy Isaacson <adi@bitmover.com>
    Date:	Fri, 14 May 2004 18:54:33 -0600
    
    

    On Friday 14 May 2004 10:53 am, Andy Isaacson wrote:

    > So, in the oddball config department, you've got a ISAPnP modem over
    > which you're running PPP; CONFIG_PREEMPT is on.
    >
    > That corruption size really does make me think of network packets, so
    > I'm tempted to blame it on PPP. Can you find out the MTU of your PPP
    > link? "ifconfig ppp0" or something like that.

    ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
              inet addr:216.31.65.245 P-t-P:216.31.65.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
              UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
              RX packets:123 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
              RX bytes:77312 (75.5 Kb) TX bytes:8212 (8.0 Kb)
    >
    > Can you try doing something like
    >
    > #!/bin/sh
    > x=0
    > while true; do
    > bk clone -qlr40514130hBbvgP4CvwEVEu27oxm46w testing-2.6 foo
    > (cd foo; bk pull -q)
    > rm -rf foo
    > x=`expr $x + 1`
    > echo -n "$x "
    > done
    >
    > (I just pulled that key at random out of the kernel repository; there's
    > nothing special about it except that it's far enough back for the revert
    > and pull to be very involved operations.)
    >
    > That ought to do a nice test of the CPU, memory, disk, and kernel sans
    > PPP. If that loop runs for, say, 10 iterations without errors, keep it
    > running and try doing some non-BK network IO for a half hour (or two
    > iterations of the clone/pull loop, whichever is longer) and see if it
    > fails. You might want to increase the runtimes, say, overnight and two
    > hours of network activity, if you don't see any failures.
    >
    > This test is designed to check the theory that in your config, PPP
    > somehow corrupts random buffer cache pages.

    It didn't need PPP to fail.
    It looks like it failed on the 7th iteration of the script supplied by Andy.

    [snipped list of files]
    sound/core/SCCS/s.Kconfig
    Your repository should be back to where it was before undo started
    We are running a consistency check to verify this.
    check passed
    Undo failed, repository left locked.
    WARNING: deleting orphan file /home/steven/tmp/bk_clone2_mVmrsk
    Entire repository is locked by:
            RESYNC directory.
    ERROR-Unable to lock repository for update.
    6

    [steven@spc BK]$ ls -ls foo/RESYNC/SCCS/*
    40048 -r--r--r-- 1 steven steven 41007273 May 14 18:08 foo/RESYNC/SCCS/s.ChangeSet
       68 -r--r--r-- 1 steven steven 67791 May 14 18:11 foo/RESYNC/SCCS/s.CREDITS
       76 -r--r--r-- 1 steven steven 75264 May 14 18:11 foo/RESYNC/SCCS/s.MAINTAINERS
      124 -r--r--r-- 1 steven steven 124747 May 14 18:11 foo/RESYNC/SCCS/s.Makefile
      
    Let me know if you want any of these files. I can compress them and send them
    the usual way.

    The kernel was 2.6.6 plus whatever is in Linus' tree, and bk was 3.0.4.

    Steven
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