Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:39:30 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | RE: OOPS in do_try_to_free_pages with VERY large software RAID array |
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> Thanks for the help Martin. It looks like that was the problem. The > kernel mdstat statistics must have been overwriting some other kernel > memory and giving me my panics. With the help of Kevin's 2.5 patch I > patched the Red Hat 2.4.18-26 md code to use seq_file and now my big > RAID arrays are syncing and I haven't had a panic yet :D > > Thanks again to everyone for the help. I'll submit the patch to the > linux-raid list as md-seq_file-2.4.18-26.7.x.patch if anyone's > interested.
Cool. If I get bored at some point, I might try to make a debug option to put some minefield trap after /proc functions to catch them doing this. Or we change the interface ;-)
I got burnt by the same thing for being the first twit to try booting a 16 CPU ia32 machine ... /proc/cpuinfo went a bit wild.
M.
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