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Date:	Sat, 09 May 2009 10:10:05 -0400
From:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc: reiserfs_delete_xattrs log spam (bug 13122)

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Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 02:44:25PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> On  9 May, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> I just switched from 2.6.29.1 to 2.6.30-rc5, and I'm getting the same as 
>>> the reporter of http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13122 alias
>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123990989515105, i.e. repetitions of
>>>  >>>
>>> May  9 14:27:22 stein REISERFS warning (device sda1): jdm-20004 
>>> reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)
>>> May  9 14:27:22 stein
>>> <<<
>>>
>>> This happens in irregular intervals, but a lot of times --- presumably 
>>> when certain files are accessed.  I'm on a recently set-up Gentoo 
>>> machine.  I created its root filesystem using the Gentoo x86-64 minimal 
>>> boot CD; my guess is that the kernel of the boot CD had 
>>> CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR enabled.  All kernels which I used since then 
>>> have it disabled:  2.6.27-gentoo-r8, 2.6.29.1, now 2.6.30-rc5.
>> PS:  Also, the following came up at this (= first) boot of 2.6.30-rc, as
>> a warm reboot from 2.6.29.1. I have no idea whether it's connected to
>> the issue.
> 
> That WARN_ON() is fixed in the patches in VFS queue; should be gone in
> -next and I'm going to push a bunch of fixes to Linus today, this one
> among them.
> 
> The first one you've reported is a different story.  Could you try to
> bisect it?

I'm looking into this right now. I have an idea, but I haven't been able
to reproduce it yet to test.

- -Jeff

- --
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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