Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:13:37 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [kvm-devel] severe bug in 2.6.23+ kvm.git |
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Carsten Otte wrote: > Hi list, > > we've experienced a severe bug in current kvm.git, that may have been > introduced to the git tree quite recently around last weekend. 2.6.23 > is broken, 2.6.23-rc8 works for us. The symptom is, that our operon > kvm test machine shredders its hard disk content to a state that is > not correctably by the file system checker. We use raid1 md mirrored > ext3 file systems on 4 sata hard disks on it, and we've verified > correct operation of the hardware via badblocks and memtest86. > The problem occurs even without kvm modules loaded, so the cause seems > to be something that Avi pulled elsewhere. Did anyone else experience > similar problems with the 2.6.23 based kvm tree? Does anyone have an > idea about a possible cause, which would help us debugging it? > >
kvm.git is actually 2.6.24-rc, pulled from -linus at a random point in time, so it's not at all surprising if something is broken.
One option is for you to pull -linus to get the latest and hopefully greatest and see if the bug is fixed.
Another is to use the external module capability to build kvm.git against 2.6.23.1.
-- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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