On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:12 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:

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> If you look at the array more in detail, you'll notice that 'offs' part of
> structure is sometimes identical. That should never happen because 'offs'
> contains offset of the corresponding directory entry in a block. So when
> offsets are identical in this array, subsequent move will copy some entries
> several times and leave entries that should be moved in the old block,
> resulting in a corruption we see.
>   The question is, how could offsets be the same? dx_make_map seems to get
> it right and dx_sort_map as well. Maybe I'd peek into disassembly of
> dx_sort_map to see whether swap() macro does what it should... If that
> looks OK, you could try adding some debug checks into dx_sort_map and try
> to catch the moment when duplicate offsets are created...

Thanks. I'll have a look. It could be a miscompile indeed. My cross-gcc
is a 4.4.0, maybe that's the root of the problem.

Cheers,
Ben.


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