matt@theBachChoir.org.uk wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying for ages to get a Toshiba laptop running, and finally when
> I get to the point when X + sound + network etc etc are all starting to be
> happy (having gone to 2.3.xx) I find that the thing is not only oopsing all
> over the place, but (even before this) loads of userspace apps are
> segfaulting.
This is precisely the same as the error I reported a couple of weeks
back (Toshiba Satellite 4100 XDVD, 2.3.99-pre7).
Your 'struct poll_table' in __poll_wait() is getting 0xffffffff written
all over it.
For me, this was associated with IDE DMA timeouts.
Are you using IDE DMA? Have you tried turning it off? (hdparm -d 0
/dev/hda)?
I also observed 4k lumps of 0xff getting written into NFS-served files.
It makes me think that _something_, probably in the IDE code is spraying
blocks of 0xff into places where it shouldn't.
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