On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:42:49AM -0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:38 -0800, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: > > > > > Below is the result of full bisect > > > > > futex: rely on get_user_pages() for shared futexes > > > > However does a futex change make ext3 crap its pants? > > > > > > Is there anything more to it than start the machine, and reboot? > > > > Just system startup and reboot is enough to reproduce the problem. And 100% > > reproducible. So, does seem to be any timing involved either. > > That's very odd indeed, non of my test systems nor Ingo's ever triggered > this, and that patch has been in -tip for a rather long time. > > CommitDate: Tue Sep 30 12:35:20 2008 +0200 > > That's 3.5 months of test time.. most curious. What kind of userland do > you have that triggers this? > This is a Core 2 (X5460) DP server system with SuSE SLES 10 installation. I have 3 ext3 partitions mounted; root, home and my own masterboot that I use to switch between different OS installations. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html