2009-03-11 15:32:26

by Tarkan Erimer

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Subject: ext4 problem on Linux-2.6.29-rc7-git4


After booting into new 2.6.29-rc7-git4, I got a lot of errors below in
dmesg. If it's a known issue or reported before, please ignore it.

Thanks,


[ 87.972869] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
3199
[ 87.996185] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 88.051789] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 88.166686] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 88.574640] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 88.575650] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 88.581875] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 88.592367] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 88.595424] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 93.766084] __ratelimit: 3 callbacks
suppressed

[ 93.766089] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
90997
[ 141.533514] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91231
[ 141.538206] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
44276
[ 141.747876] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 144.267920] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 144.269304] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 144.270743] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 144.272727] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 144.757113] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 145.987488] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 149.776801] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 151.012097] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 151.012263] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
270
[ 151.913137] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
270
[ 152.619462] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 152.897305] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 152.930566] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 152.933778] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 152.950359] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 152.953722] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 170.656343] __ratelimit: 125 callbacks
suppressed

[ 170.656347] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 170.658684] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 170.659887] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 171.944781] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91233
[ 173.975844] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93760
[ 173.984712] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
180006
[ 173.994632] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
173294
[ 174.002575] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
173294
[ 174.013019] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 174.020086] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 179.709611] __ratelimit: 2 callbacks
suppressed

[ 179.709616] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 179.712343] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 182.584232] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
90997
[ 182.584650] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
90997
[ 182.606425] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 182.619401] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 183.999261] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
90997
[ 184.473781] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
263
[ 185.416915] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 185.675978] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 194.968331] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 195.086258] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93727
[ 195.086600] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93564
[ 196.198307] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 196.387716] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 196.622641] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 198.491449] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 201.911824] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91233
[ 204.714131] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 204.716209] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 204.717948] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 204.720704] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 204.804723] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 204.875122] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 204.941567] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 204.942883] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 204.943975] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 211.638861] __ratelimit: 73 callbacks
suppressed

[ 211.638866] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 211.639938] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 213.439799] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 215.352344] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
90997
[ 215.352767] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
90997
[ 217.777083] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 217.784517] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
270
[ 218.013981] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 218.214146] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 222.263144] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 222.310091] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
90979
[ 222.316042] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
90979
[ 222.499430] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93727
[ 222.499754] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93564
[ 223.396699] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 225.298729] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 229.123683] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91013
[ 231.912341] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
91233
[ 233.666336] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 233.666571] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 233.666741] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
93759
[ 244.698308] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir
90997
[ 245.091142] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 263
[ 250.216814] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 93759
[ 256.395520] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 180006
[ 257.711338] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 44276
[ 257.739477] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 180006
[ 257.741842] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 208891
[ 261.915214] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 91233
[ 262.436972] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 180006
[ 262.847569] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 208920
[ 262.847914] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 208920
[ 264.219725] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 212335
[ 264.220045] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 212335


2009-03-12 15:02:51

by Theodore Ts'o

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Subject: Re: ext4 problem on Linux-2.6.29-rc7-git4

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:32:09PM +0200, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
>
> After booting into new 2.6.29-rc7-git4, I got a lot of errors below in
> dmesg. If it's a known issue or reported before, please ignore it.

It's a warning, not an error; but I didn't expect it to be quite so
voluminous in terms of log messages. We have a proper fix for it
queued up for 2.6.30, but it was considered too invasive. So the fix
was to print a warning which we ratelimited, but it looks like it's
even with the printk_ratelimit the warnings are too annoying to let
live. I'll probably fix it to only printk the message once.

- Ted

2009-03-12 15:16:39

by Tarkan Erimer

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Subject: Re: ext4 problem on Linux-2.6.29-rc7-git4

Theodore Tso wrote:
> It's a warning, not an error; but I didn't expect it to be quite so
> voluminous in terms of log messages. We have a proper fix for it
> queued up for 2.6.30, but it was considered too invasive. So the fix
> was to print a warning which we ratelimited, but it looks like it's
> even with the printk_ratelimit the warnings are too annoying to let
> live. I'll probably fix it to only printk the message once.
>
> - Ted
>
Good to hear that it was just a warning and not a bug/problem ;-)
I think, I can live with these warnings in my dmesg till 2.6.30! :-P