linux-kernel - Re: XFS kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:470! with 2.6.28.4

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:59:16 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Alessandro Bono <alessandro.bono@...il.com>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-xfs <linux-xfs@....sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: XFS kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:470! with 2.6.28.4

  Argh, forgot the patch...

> > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:43 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:53:08AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:45:20PM +0100, Alessandro Bono wrote:
> > > > > sure, attached
> > > > 
> > > > That would be a missing PagePrivate bit in page_buffers() called from
> > > > end_buffer_async_write.  PG_private can only be cleared via drop_buffers
> > > > which requires the page not having PG_writeback set which must be
> > > > set until end_buffer_async_write is done.  Very strange, and all this
> > > > is generic code without xfs involvement.  Did this happen once
> > > > or can you reproduce it?
> > > 
> > > Hmmmm - i wonder if this has anything to do with the writeback fixes
> > > that went into 2.6.28.2? Alessandro, can you revert to 2.6.28.1 (not
> > > plain 2.6.28) and see if you can reproduce the problem?
> > 
> > another test another bug
> > kernel 2.6.29-rc4-git4 with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST
> > enabled (idea taken from a totally unrelated mail from Ingo Molnar to
> > catch a memory corruption), usual bug attached
> > 2.6.27 from ubuntu not survived to rsync
> > 
> > btw my first report of a similar problem was with a kernel 2.6.26.6 but
> > at time I was using binary driver for my radeon card and Christoph
> > suggest me that I have to recreate problem without any binary driver
> > maybe it's not a recent regression, it's simply easier to hit with a
> > newer kernel
> > 
> > I don't have abandoned idea of a hardware problem but I don't know how
> > to be sure
> > 
> > any suggestion?
>   Hmm, are you still able to reproduce the problem? As I'm looking into
> registers in your dump, no register really seems to contain sensible page
> flags so it could be some corruption of page pointer. If you are still
> able to reproduce, could you please do so with the attached patch
> applied? It will dump us much more information... Thanks.
> 
> 								Honza
> 
> -- 
> Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> SuSE CR Labs
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs

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