hello I observed OOM/panic during create RAID4 with DIF/DIX enabled disk, here I used scsi-debug to created the DIF/DIX disk. Full log: http://pastebin.com/uP3rJcHX Environment: 4.8.0-rc2 32Gb phycial memory Reproduced at Iteration:19 Reproduce steps: #!/bin/bash modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=16384 num_parts=4 dif=1 dix=1 sleep 5 num=0 while [ $num -lt 100 ]; do echo "********************Iteration:$num****************" mdadm --create --run /dev/md0 --level 4 --metadata 1.2 --raid-devices 4 /dev/sdc[1-4] --bitmap=internal --bitmap-chunk=64M --chunk 512 mdadm --wait /dev/md0 cat /proc/mdstat mdadm -Ss mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdc[1-4] sleep 1 ((num++)) done Best Regards, Yi Zhang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html