> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 11:45:56PM +0100, Peter Falth wrote:
>> I saw that my answer did not reach the list, so here it is again
>>
>> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>> >On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:54:48AM +0100, Peter Falth wrote:
>> >>I get an unaligned access kernel warning when the host boots up.
>> >>This is also repeated when I do vserver-stat.
>> >>I have tested both Debian precompiled and compiled
>> >>myself from the kernel sources with the same result.
>> >
>> >means you got vanilla 2.6.18.2 from kernel.org and
>> >the vs2.1.1 patch and it gave the unaligned access too?
>> >
>> Yes a vanilla 2.6.18.2 + vs2.1.1
>> also vs 2.0.2.2-rc5 gave the same unaligned access
>
> guess we found the cause for the unaligned access
> in the dietlibc readdir() function ... if you need/want
> details, please contact Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
>
> (guess it should appear sooner or later in dietlibc)
Good. As this do not give any other problems
(my sever has now run 3 months without problems)
I will just wait for the fix to migrate to dietlibc
Peter
>
> HTH,
> Herbert
>
>> >>Except for this it works great. It was my first time
>> >>using vserver
>> >
>> >welcome to the club!
>> >
>> >>Debian unstable sparc64 on Ultra 5 and 10.
>> >>The unpatched kernel do not show the access errors
>> >
>> >unpatched means, unpatched debian or unpatched
>> >vanailla from kernel.org?
>> yes vanilla from kernel.org
>> >
>> >>Here is a copy of the error mesages
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>U10:/home/peter# vserver-stat
>> >>CTX PROC VSZ RSS userTIME sysTIME UPTIME NAME
>> >>0 69 354.5M 111.5M 2m37s41 1m00s66 1d14h25 root server
>> >>49152 19 254.7M 107.3M 1m31s90 0m14s64 1d14h22 vs1
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>From kernel messages
>> >>
>> >>Nov 14 14:17:29 U10 kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[4bf060]
>> >>filldir64+0x68/0x140
>> >>Nov 14 14:17:29 U10 kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[4bf07c]
>> >>filldir64+0x84/0x140
>> >>Nov 14 14:17:29 U10 kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[4bf034]
>> >>filldir64+0x3c/0x140
>> >>Nov 14 14:17:29 U10 kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[4bf060]
>> >>filldir64+0x68/0x140
>> >>Nov 14 14:17:29 U10 kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[4bf07c]
>> >>filldir64+0x84/0x140
>> >
>> >would you be willing to run a test patch on that machine?
>> >I would be interesting in investigating this, whenever you
>> >find some time ...
>> >
>> No problem, send the patch and I will try it out
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> >TIA,
>> >Herbert
>> >
>> >>Peter
>> >>
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