linux-kernel - Re: (NFS) BUG: at page-writeback.c:829 [Was: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1]

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 22:47:41 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@....uio.no
Subject: Re: (NFS) BUG: at page-writeback.c:829 [Was: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1]

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Nick Piggin napsal(a):
> 
>>Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>
>>>Andrew Morton napsal(a):
>>>
>>>
>>>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I've got this in dmesg:
>>>
>>>BUG: at /local/xslaby/xxx/mm/page-writeback.c:829
>>>__set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
>>> [<c010531e>] dump_trace+0x1ce/0x200
>>> [<c010536a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
>>> [<c0106012>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
>>> [<c0106086>] dump_stack+0x16/0x20
>>> [<c015566d>] __set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0x11d/0x130
>>> [<c0155690>] redirty_page_for_writepage+0x10/0x20
>>> [<c01938fc>] __block_write_full_page+0x20c/0x330
>>> [<c0193b0a>] block_write_full_page+0xea/0x100
>>> [<c0196c82>] blkdev_writepage+0x12/0x20
>>> [<c015539e>] __writepage+0xe/0x30
>>> [<c01558c2>] write_cache_pages+0x222/0x340
>>> [<c0155a03>] generic_writepages+0x23/0x30
>>> [<c0155a3e>] do_writepages+0x2e/0x50
>>> [<c018decb>] __writeback_single_inode+0x8b/0x470
>>> [<c018e75b>] generic_sync_sb_inodes+0x24b/0x470
>>> [<c018e9a7>] sync_sb_inodes+0x27/0x30
>>> [<c018ec33>] writeback_inodes+0xb3/0xe0
>>> [<c01560f2>] wb_kupdate+0x82/0xf0
>>> [<c015660b>] pdflush+0xeb/0x1b0
>>> [<c0132e72>] kthread+0x42/0x70
>>> [<c0104d4b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c
>>
>>Do you have any messages before this one? Seems like it is probably
>>metadata,
>>but we've only caught it at the last minute...
> 
> 
> No other messages before that. Bazillion through-nfs stacks after this...

Does this patch fix NFS?

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