linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29 regression: ATA bus errors on resume

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:24:24 +0200
From:	Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"linux.kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29 regression: ATA bus errors on resume

On 06/26/2009 02:46 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Niel.
>
> Niel Lambrechts wrote:
>    
>> I've recently switched my root partition from OpenSUSE 11.1 to Fedora 11
>> and since then I've not again seen the issue. I'm still using vanilla
>> 2.6.30 generated with the same .config and EXT4 as before, so I have no
>> idea why I cannot reproduce the issue. I still use hibernate + sleep
>> frequently, and I just checked - I have 5 days uptime with a mount count
>> of 20 and the file-system is still clean.
>>
>> The one big difference is that my original partition was a EXT2 ->  EXT3
>> ->  EXT4 upgrade job over a long period of time, and some of the EXT4
>> parameters now used by Fedora 11 on the reformatted root partition are
>> different from what I had then. Here is a summary of the differences in
>> case it matters at all:
>>      
<snip>
> Eh... if my analysis is correct the bug will be dependent on some
> non-deterministic things including timing and layout of blocks of the
> file which the filesystem touchs during suspend/resume.  I'm fairly
> sure the problem is still there.  Oh well, it seems I'll have to
> construct a synthetic case to test it.  Anyways, please let me know if
> you encounter the problem again.  I'll keep you in loop with further
> patches.
>    

Understood, what I mean to imply is that I might (at least temporarily) 
be shielded from the bug because reformatting the root partition could 
possibly have removed some fragmentation and improved the initial disk 
layout. With the previous partition layout there would also have been a 
mixture of extents and non-extents based files since that system was 
upgraded from EXT2 to EXT3 to EXT4.

I'll try to boot from 2.6.29 again as well, and put it through some 
suspend/resume cycles just in case that made any difference.

Regards,
Niel


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