Re: 2.3.12 - klogd 100% CPU && Bogus Buffer memory count

Mofeed Shahin (shahin@labf.org)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 08:04:24 +0930 (CST)


On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Chuck Lever wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mofeed Shahin wrote:
> > Well Chuck, I have just tried using the same cd again and yes it is
> > reproducable.
> > As soon as I get one of these :
> >
> > Aug 10 18:16:26 tt2 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> > Aug 10 18:16:26 tt2 kernel: 0b:00, want=532574, limit=532572
> >
> > klogd starts using 100% CPU.
> >
> > So it looks like the race condition is in the cdrom layer.
> >
> > Anything else I can do to try find this bug, I will be happy to do.
>
> thanks mofeed-
>
> but the klogd problem is separate from the buffermem problem. i think
> someone even recently posted a fix for it here on linux-kernel. do you
> see buffermem go negative when you see the "attempt to access" message?

Nope, that seems to happen later on.

CHeers Mof.

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