linux-kernel - Re: [Jfs-discussion] [2/4] 2.6.23-rc6: known regressions

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:44:24 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] [2/4] 2.6.23-rc6: known regressions

Am Donnerstag 13 September 2007 schrieb Dave Kleikamp:
> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:58 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> 
> > Subject         : umount triggers a warning in jfs and takes almost a minute
> > References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/4/73
> > Last known good : ?
> > Submitter       : Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
> > Caused-By       : ?
> > Handled-By      : ?
> > Status          : unknown
> 
> I'm still waiting to hear from Oliver whether or not this is actually a
> regression.

OK, I've done test. On 2.6.22 I was unable to trigger the warning.
On 2.6.23-rc6 I get the following warning in about 3/4 of all unmounts:

Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel: WARNING: at fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1643 jfs_flush_journal()
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel: Call Trace:
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff8860f962>] :jfs:jfs_flush_journal+0x26a/0x27d
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff8029fca1>] dispose_list+0xde/0xf7
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff885fd003>] :jfs:jfs_umount+0x30/0xe5
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff885f9a31>] :jfs:jfs_put_super+0xd/0x5e
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff8028ef8f>] generic_shutdown_super+0x60/0xf0
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff8028f02c>] kill_block_super+0xd/0x1e
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff8028f0f7>] deactivate_super+0x6a/0x82
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff802a2184>] sys_umount+0x249/0x25a
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff802616ff>] audit_syscall_entry+0x141/0x174
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:  [<ffffffff8020be8c>] tracesys+0xdc/0xe1
Sep 19 13:08:04 oenone kernel:

This is on a partition of a usb mass storage device with 2K sector size.
IMHO it is a regression. I am recompiling with CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG.

	Regards
		Oliver

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