Re: XFS forced shutdown with kernel 2.6.0

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:27:40PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:29:21 GMT, Christoph Hellwig said:
> 
> > I've seen the same bug a few times lately, but only if I had previous
> > memory corruption due to code I was hacking on.  Can you reproduce it
> > without the nvidia module loaded as that is likely source of such
> > corruption?
> 
> While you're at it, see what *else* you can turn off - RAID, devfs, NFS, etc.
> 
> It's equally likely that you're tripping over some other kernel module's
> use-after-free or chase-the-wrong-pointer bug.  I've seen a lot more bugfixes
> for *those* on this list than cases where "I turned off nvidia and it started
> working".

The difference is that I can look at those while I can't look at nvidias
driver. Pretty simple.