Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.77]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i6TLk9hC014945 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:46:10 -0700 Received: from taniwha.stupidest.org (adsl-63-202-172-176.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.172.176]) by pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.10 milter /8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6TLk5Di198718; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:46:05 -0400 Received: by taniwha.stupidest.org (Postfix, from userid 38689) id 61855115C860; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:46:05 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Jan-Frode Myklebust Cc: Eric Sandeen , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: bugzilla vs. bugzilla Message-ID: <20040729214605.GB22041@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20040728103708.GA26088@ii.uib.no> <20040728163220.GA28915@ii.uib.no> <1091038172.7002.12.camel@stout.americas.sgi.com> <20040729212501.GA10878@ii.uib.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040729212501.GA10878@ii.uib.no> X-archive-position: 3775 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: cw@f00f.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:25:01PM +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > Could these crashes be related to the 4KSTACKS which Steve Lord > seems to be advising against? Unrelated. IRIX memory allocations never fail they just might take forever. Under Linux they can fail so the callers have to be aware of this and check for this and retry as required. XFS under Linux didn't do this everywhere it should previously so memory allocations could fail and you would see null pointer dereference problems. --cw