linux-ext4 - Re: ext4: journal has aborted

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Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 2014 18:56:19 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	David Jander <david@...tonic.nl>
Cc:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>,
	Matteo Croce <technoboy85@...il.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: ext4: journal has aborted

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:53:10AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> An update from today's ext4 concall.  Eric Whitney can fairly reliably
> reproduce this on his Panda board with 3.15, and definitely not on
> 3.14.  So at this point there seems to be at least some kind of 3.15
> regression going on here, regardless of whether it's in the eMMC
> driver or the ext4 code.  (It also means that the bug fix I found is
> irrelevant for the purposes of working this issue, since that's a much
> harder to hit, and that bug has been around long before 3.14.)
> 
> The problem in terms of narrowing it down any further is that the
> Pandaboard is running into RCU bugs which makes it hard to test the
> early 3.15-rcX kernels.....

In the hopes of making it easy to bisect, I've created a kernel branch
which starts with 3.14, and then adds on all of the ext4-related
commits since then.   You can find it at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git test-mb_generate_buddy-failure

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/log/?h=test-mb_generate_buddy-failure

Eric, can you see if you can repro the failure on your Panda Board?
If you can, try doing a bisection search on these series:

git bisect start
git bisect good v3.14
git bisect bad test-mb_generate_buddy-failure

Hopefully if it is caused by one of the commits in this series, we'll
be able to pin point it this way.

Thanks!!

						- Ted
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