Re: Errors and later panics in 2.6.0-test11.

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 11:52:47 EST




On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > Interesting. Another RAID 0 problem report..
>
> Hmm did _all_ reports include raid-0, or just "some" raid? I'm looking
> at the bio_pair stuff which raid-0 is the only user of, something looks
> fishy there.

The ones I've seen seem to be raid-0, but Nathan (nathans@xxxxxxx)
reported problems in RAID-5 under load. I didn't decode the full oops on
that one, but it really looked like a stale "bi" bio that trapped on the
PAGE_ALLOC debug code.

So we may have more than one problem.

Linus
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