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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:50:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: PLEASE TEST: IPI deadlock avoidance patch
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040826114453.82006A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Daniel Eriksson wrote:

> Craig Boston wrote:
> 
> > Just a follow-up to my off-list message and another data point, with
> > this patch I no longer get deadlocks, however I now get random data
> > corruption.
> 
> Me too! 
> 
> I've observed very strange data corruption on a filesystem exported via
> Samba from a dual P3/700 running with the IPI deadlock patch. About 10%
> is all files saved to the share while I had SMP enabled seems to be
> corrupt in one way or another. 

Could you be more specific about "one way" or "another"?  Specifically,
are you observing files that contain unexpected garbage, unexpected
regions of ASCII 0, unexpected contents of another file, etc?  If it's
possible to narrow it down further, using hexdump, is it possible to
determine whether corruption begins and ends on page of file block
boundaries?

Also, is it possible for you to test whether you can trigger the
corruption solely through remote access via Samba, and not through the use
of other local programs and applications on the file system? 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research




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