diskcorruption on 6.12.y

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c

Research direction

Start by comparing revision 521f2baed818c04981fd61b275c996a8ef03b833 on branch rpi-6.12.y with a real-time kernel configuration on the listed Raspberry Pi devices. Reproduce the disk corruption, collect the missing logs, and identify a kernel change that prevents directory-node errors and further corruption.

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Description

Describe the bug

Revision 521f2baed818c04981fd61b275c996a8ef03b833 of branch rpi-6.12.y gives massive disk-corruption when realtime-kernel is enabled.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Configure kernel for real-time.

Device (s)

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Raspberry Pi 3 Mod. B

System

raspbian 64bit lite

Logs

Not directly available. If this problem is of interest, I can see if I can reproduce it.
Errors I saw were related to directory-nodes being full.

Additional context

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