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Message-ID: <20081106171639.GH25194@skywalker>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:46:39 +0530
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc: Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3: kernel BUG at fs/jbd/journal.c:412!
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:13:22PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:12:27AM -0800, Arthur Jones wrote:
> > Hi Aneesh, ...
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:50:25AM -0800, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > I get this with ext4-patchqueue. I guess we have some ext3 patches queued there.
> >
> > This could be related to a patch I just posted.
> >
> > See the thread on linux-ext4 called "ext3: slow symlink corruption
> > on umount" for details on how this patch came about...
>
> No this is the other ext3 patch we have in the patch tree. I see the
> problem, we're calling __log_space_left in a diagnostic printk after
> we've released the j_state_lock. Here's the incremental fix:
>
> diff --git a/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
> index 5e856de..18e5137 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
> @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int __try_to_free_cp_buf(struct journal_head *jh)
> */
> void __log_wait_for_space(journal_t *journal)
> {
> - int nblocks;
> + int nblocks, space_left;
> assert_spin_locked(&journal->j_state_lock);
>
> nblocks = jbd_space_needed(journal);
> @@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ void __log_wait_for_space(journal_t *journal)
> spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> nblocks = jbd_space_needed(journal);
> - if (__log_space_left(journal) < nblocks) {
> + space_left = __log_space_left(journal);
> + if (space_left < nblocks) {
> int chkpt = journal->j_checkpoint_transactions != NULL;
> int tid = 0;
>
> @@ -157,8 +158,7 @@ void __log_wait_for_space(journal_t *journal)
> } else {
> printk(KERN_ERR "%s: needed %d blocks and "
> "only had %d space available\n",
> - __func__, nblocks,
> - __log_space_left(journal));
> + __func__, nblocks, space_left);
> printk(KERN_ERR "%s: no way to get more "
> "journal space\n", __func__);
> WARN_ON(1);
>
>
you would need the same patch for jbd2
-aneesh
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