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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612050844110.28502@twin.jikos.cz>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:48:30 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Neil Brown wrote:
> As Andrew correctly pointed out, this bit error is not a RAM problem. It
> is actually the low bit of a counter a spinlock that was decremented
> just before the WARN_ON. So it simply indicates that the inode had
> already been freed, which I think we knew already. Unfortunately I still
> have no idea why that inode had been freed but was still referenced by a
> dentry.... How repeatable as this bug? How did you narrow it down to
> that patch? Did you use git-bisect or something else?
When this happened, I just looked at the broken-out patches in -mm, which
ones touch the md subsystem, found your patch, reverse-applied it, and
this stopped happening.
It seemed to be 100% reproducible - happened on every boot of FC6 system,
so it was probably triggered by some raid/lvm command executed from init
scripts after boot, but I didn't examine it further.
As soon as I get to the machine where this happens, I will try to narrow
it down to the exact userspace command that triggers it and will let you
know (probably this evening).
--
Jiri Kosina
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