On Tue, Nov 28 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 28 Nov 00 at 12:04, David S. Miller wrote:
> > 
> >    Yes, it is identical copy. But I do not think that hdd can write same
> >    data into two places with one command...
> > 
> > Petr, did the af_inet.c assertions get triggered on this
> > same machine?
> 
> No, ext2fs is at home, and af_inet is at work... At work I'm using
> vmware, at home I do not use it... But kernel sources are same
> (g450 patch for matroxfb, ncpfs supporting device nodes, threaded ipx;
> but neither ncpfs nor ipx is compiled at home).
>                                                    Petr Vandrovec
>                                                    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Petr,

Could you try and reproduce with attached patch? If this would trigger
I would assume fs corruption as well (which doesn't seem to be the
case for you), but it's worth a shot.

--- drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~  Wed Nov 29 01:30:22 2000
+++ drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c   Wed Nov 29 01:33:00 2000
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@
        int max_segments = MAX_SEGMENTS;
        struct request * req = NULL, *freereq = NULL;
        int rw_ahead, max_sectors, el_ret;
-       struct list_head *head = &q->queue_head;
+       struct list_head *head;
        int latency;
        elevator_t *elevator = &q->elevator;
 
@@ -734,6 +734,7 @@
         */
 again:
        spin_lock_irq(&io_request_lock);
+       head = &q->queue_head;
 
        /*
         * skip first entry, for devices with active queue head

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* SuSE Labs
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