Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Aug 31 2007 - 00:39:21 EST


From: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:12:46 +0000 (UTC)

> Anybody got any ideas of how we fix this?

I don't know how much testing XFS gets on ARM, but one thing that some
ARM chips have is D-cache aliasing problems and one thing XFS uses a
lot is virtual remapping of various data structures via vmap().

This might be what is causing the problems.
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