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Re: Timing critical portions of XFS at startup?

To: ian.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Timing critical portions of XFS at startup?
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 30 Nov 2001 11:23:41 -0600
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, "linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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I am pretty sure this will not be timing related, XFS should not be
sensitive to timing. I suspect it is more likely to be related to a
failing memory allocation.

Any reason you have to stay with 2.4.8?

Steve

On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 11:30, Ian S. Nelson wrote:
> I'll dump out the oops.  I haven't been running with kdb since I don't have
> a console on the machine.
> 
> thanks,
> Ian
> 
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> > Any more details on the crash, either an oops output or a kdb
> > backtrace?  Or does adding kdb perturb things enough that it works
> > again?
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 11:11, Ian S. Nelson wrote:
> > > I'm debugging a bizarre bug right now.   I'm building a tiny embedded
> > > box and I'm using XFS.  Right now I've got a kernel (2.4.8 based) that
> > > crashes when I add printks to it and doesn't crash when I remove them.
> > > The crash is always in XFS code,  xfs_trans_get_buf is where it usually
> > > happens.
> > --
> > Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> > sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.
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Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software         email: lord@xxxxxxx


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