Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966228AbWKNStY (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:49:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966227AbWKNStY (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:49:24 -0500 Received: from calculon.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.88]:37766 "EHLO calculon.skynet.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966228AbWKNStW (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:49:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:49:19 +0000 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds Message-ID: <20061114184919.GA16020@skynet.ie> References: <20061114014125.dd315fff.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061114014125.dd315fff.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5730 Lines: 129 On (14/11/06 01:41), Andrew Morton didst pronounce: > > Presently at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.19-rc5-mm2/ > > and will appear later at > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc5/2.6.19-rc5-mm2/ > Am seeing errors with systems using ext2. First machine is a plan old x86 using initramfs. Console output looks like; RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Starting udev Creating devices EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 Second machine is a numaq with an ext2 root filesystem hecking root file system... fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) e2fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) /dev/sda1: clean, 310908/2240224 files, 2189096/4480119 blocks (check in 3 mounts) System time was Tue Nov 14 17:06:21 UTC 2006. Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. System local time is now Tue Nov 14 17:06:23 UTC 2006. Cleaning up ifupdown...done. Calculating module dependencies... done. Loading modules... All modules loaded. Creating device-mapper devices...done. Checking all file systems... fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Setting kernel variables ... ... done. Mounting local filesystems... Unable to find swap-space signature Cleaning /tmp /var/run /var/lock. Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Setting up networking...done. Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces...BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#3! [] softlockup_tick+0x9e/0xac [] update_process_times+0x4b/0x77 [] handle_update_profile+0x1c/0x2a [] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x43/0x48 [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x27/0x36 [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30 [] ext2_try_to_allocate+0xdb/0x152 [] ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv+0x4b/0x1b2 [] ext2_new_blocks+0x28d/0x4b3 [] ext2_alloc_blocks+0x4b/0xcd [] ext2_alloc_branch+0x4e/0x1ae [] ext2_init_block_alloc_info+0x26/0x6d [] ext2_get_blocks+0x23c/0x31d [] alloc_buffer_head+0x38/0x3e [] alloc_page_buffers+0x6f/0xb2 [] ext2_get_block+0x3d/0x51 [] __block_prepare_write+0x186/0x41b [] block_prepare_write+0x31/0x3f [] ext2_get_block+0x0/0x51 [] generic_file_buffered_write+0x227/0x62a [] ext2_get_block+0x0/0x51 [] file_update_time+0x3e/0xbc [] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x538/0x563 [] find_get_page+0x22/0x43 [] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd1 [] do_sync_write+0xda/0x117 [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x4b [] do_page_fault+0x394/0x6c8 [] vfs_write+0xa1/0x167 [] sys_write+0x4b/0x71 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [] __mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath+0x7f/0x94 ======================= BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#3! [] softlockup_tick+0x9e/0xac [] update_process_times+0x4b/0x77 [] handle_update_profile+0x1c/0x2a [] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x43/0x48 [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x27/0x36 [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30 [] ext2_try_to_allocate+0xd4/0x152 [] ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv+0x4b/0x1b2 [] ext2_new_blocks+0x28d/0x4b3 [] ext2_alloc_blocks+0x4b/0xcd [] ext2_alloc_branch+0x4e/0x1ae [] ext2_init_block_alloc_info+0x26/0x6d [] ext2_get_blocks+0x23c/0x31d [] alloc_buffer_head+0x38/0x3e [] alloc_page_buffers+0x6f/0xb2 [] ext2_get_block+0x3d/0x51 [] __block_prepare_write+0x186/0x41b [] block_prepare_write+0x31/0x3f [] ext2_get_block+0x0/0x51 [] generic_file_buffered_write+0x227/0x62a [] ext2_get_block+0x0/0x51 [] file_update_time+0x3e/0xbc [] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x538/0x563 [] find_get_page+0x22/0x43 [] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd1 [] do_sync_write+0xda/0x117 [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x4b [] do_page_fault+0x394/0x6c8 [] vfs_write+0xa1/0x167 [] sys_write+0x4b/0x71 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [] __mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath+0x7f/0x94 (message repeats a lot) I've not investigated yet what patches might be at fault. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/