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Message-Id: <1163667901.4310.53.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:05:01 -0800
From: Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:11:22 +0000 (GMT)
> Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > 2.6.19-rc5-mm2
> > >
> > > Am seeing errors with systems using ext2. First machine is a plan old x86
> > > using initramfs. Console output looks like;
> > > ...
> > > Configuring network interfaces...BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#3!
> > > ...
> > > [<c01b3b80>] ext2_try_to_allocate+0xdb/0x152
> > > [<c01b3e72>] ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv+0x4b/0x1b2
> > >
> > > I've not investigated yet what patches might be at fault.
> >
> > I expect you'll find it's
> > ext2-reservations-bring-ext2-reservations-code-in-line-with-latest-ext3.patch
> > which gets stuck in a loop there for me too: back it out and all seems fine.
> >
> > It's not obvious which part of the patch is to blame: mostly it's
> > cleanup, but a few variables do change size: I'm currently narrowing
> > down to where a fix is needed.
> >
>
> Doing s/-Wall/-W/ tends to shake out bugs in this stuff.
>
> The below might help.
>
> Sorry, I tested this well, then the cleanup patch was merged and I didn't
> get onto retesting :(
>
>
>
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
> ---
>
> fs/ext2/balloc.c | 33 +++++++++++++++------------------
> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff -puN fs/ext2/balloc.c~ext2-reservations-bring-ext2-reservations-code-in-line-with-latest-ext3-fix fs/ext2/balloc.c
> --- a/fs/ext2/balloc.c~ext2-reservations-bring-ext2-reservations-code-in-line-with-latest-ext3-fix
> +++ a/fs/ext2/balloc.c
> @@ -1155,9 +1155,10 @@ int ext2_new_blocks(struct inode *inode,
This is different from ext3. Shouldn't the return value from
ext2_new_blocks() a ext2_fsblk_t type?
ext2_alloc_blocks() already thinks that ext2_new_blocks return unsigned
block number.
> struct buffer_head *gdp_bh;
> int group_no;
> int goal_group;
> + ext2_grpblk_t grp_target_blk; /* blockgroup relative goal block */
> + ext2_grpblk_t grp_alloc_blk; /* blockgroup-relative allocated block*/
> ext2_fsblk_t ret_block; /* filesyetem-wide allocated block */
> int bgi; /* blockgroup iteration index */
> - int target_block;
> int performed_allocation = 0;
> ext2_grpblk_t free_blocks; /* number of free blocks in a group */
> struct super_block *sb;
> @@ -1230,14 +1231,15 @@ retry_alloc:
> my_rsv = NULL;
>
> if (free_blocks > 0) {
> - ret_block = ((goal - le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block)) %
> + grp_target_blk = ((goal - le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block)) %
> EXT2_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb));
> bitmap_bh = read_block_bitmap(sb, group_no);
> if (!bitmap_bh)
> goto io_error;
> - ret_block = ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv(sb, group_no,
> - bitmap_bh, ret_block, my_rsv, &num);
> - if (ret_block >= 0)
> + grp_alloc_blk = ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv(sb, group_no,
> + bitmap_bh, grp_target_blk,
> + my_rsv, &num);
> + if (grp_alloc_blk >= 0)
> goto allocated;
> }
>
> @@ -1273,9 +1275,9 @@ retry_alloc:
> /*
> * try to allocate block(s) from this group, without a goal(-1).
> */
> - ret_block = ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv(sb, group_no,
> + grp_alloc_blk = ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv(sb, group_no,
> bitmap_bh, -1, my_rsv, &num);
> - if (ret_block >= 0)
> + if (grp_alloc_blk >= 0)
> goto allocated;
> }
> /*
> @@ -1299,25 +1301,20 @@ allocated:
> ext2_debug("using block group %d(%d)\n",
> group_no, gdp->bg_free_blocks_count);
>
> - target_block = ret_block + group_no * EXT2_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)
> - + le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block);
> + ret_block = grp_alloc_blk + ext2_group_first_block_no(sb, group_no);
>
> - if (in_range(le32_to_cpu(gdp->bg_block_bitmap), target_block, num) ||
> - in_range(le32_to_cpu(gdp->bg_inode_bitmap), target_block, num) ||
> - in_range(target_block, le32_to_cpu(gdp->bg_inode_table),
> + if (in_range(le32_to_cpu(gdp->bg_block_bitmap), ret_block, num) ||
> + in_range(le32_to_cpu(gdp->bg_inode_bitmap), ret_block, num) ||
> + in_range(ret_block, le32_to_cpu(gdp->bg_inode_table),
> EXT2_SB(sb)->s_itb_per_group) ||
> - in_range(target_block + num - 1, le32_to_cpu(gdp->bg_inode_table),
> + in_range(ret_block + num - 1, le32_to_cpu(gdp->bg_inode_table),
> EXT2_SB(sb)->s_itb_per_group))
> ext2_error(sb, "ext2_new_blocks",
> "Allocating block in system zone - "
> - "blocks from %u, length %lu", target_block, num);
> + "blocks from %u, length %lu", ret_block, num);
>
> performed_allocation = 1;
>
> -
> - /* ret_block was blockgroup-relative. Now it becomes fs-relative */
> - ret_block = target_block;
> -
> if (ret_block + num - 1 >= le32_to_cpu(es->s_blocks_count)) {
> ext2_error(sb, "ext2_new_blocks",
> "block("E2FSBLK") >= blocks count(%d) - "
> _
>
> -
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