On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:25:31AM +0000, Ingo Rohloff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a way to crash an SMP 2.4-test11 kernel:
>
> 1. Create a BIG file (lets say about 300-400 MByte)
> 2. use losetup and the loop device to create an
> ext2 filesystem within the file
> 3. mount the file
> 4. copy huge amounts of data into the file.
> (for example copy your /usr directory into it.)
>
> -> Kernel deadlocks after some time.
>
> Could someone try to reproduce this behaviour ?
Well... I've once encountered this kind of problem while porting
the kerneli patch (loopback encryption, ...) and thought it is
a problem of the kerneli patch. I've never thought about the
possibility that this problem even occurs without encryption.
The other issue is: I wasn't able to reproduce this problem either :(
> so long
> Ingo
-- Live long and prosper - Harald Welte / laforge@gnumonks.org http://www.gnumonks.org ============================================================================ GCS/E/IT d- s-: a-- C+++ UL++++$ P+++ L++++$ E--- W- N++ o? K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE-- Y+ PGP++ t++ 5-- !X !R tv-- b+++ DI? !D G+ e* h+ r% y+(*) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Dec 23 2000 - 21:00:34 EST