From: Witold Baryluk Subject: Re: [Bug #39732] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 2512725). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:11:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20111213041144.GF28734@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Maciej Rutecki , Florian Mickler , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger , Theodore Ts'o To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On 08-28 21:01, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > of regressions introduced between 2.6.39 and 3.0. > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > introduced between 2.6.39 and 3.0. Please verify if it still should > be listed and let the tracking team know (either way). > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39732 > Subject : JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 2512725). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. > Submitter : Witold Baryluk > Date : 2011-07-22 04:22 (38 days old) > Hi, This bug still exists in 3.1.0 and 3.2.0-rc5 I spoted it again few days ago, because I moved from me laptop with 2GB to temporary desktop with 256MB of RAM, and not it triggers like a mad. So my initial suspicious that it only shows up on big memory presure was correct. It is just like this # dmesg | grep dirty [122647.953872] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1019852). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122647.954598] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1043195). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122647.955213] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1043197). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122689.978864] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 498559). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122705.485461] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 68282). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122705.486046] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 68284). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122705.496916] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 68365). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122705.612423] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 69218). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122706.531297] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 833896). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122720.863807] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 914979). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122721.046789] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 890090). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122721.088280] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 916474). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122721.176979] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 928182). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122721.177593] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 927783). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122721.371654] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 920655). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122721.543676] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 967035). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122728.396687] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1043474). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122736.283876] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 713478). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122743.576350] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 745551). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122743.889259] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 828117). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122752.077022] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 905082). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122752.125005] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 905294). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122752.784390] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1030306). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. [122752.785053] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1031593). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. # dm-4 is ext4 partition mounted at /var dm-4 is on LVM on luksCrypt on ATA drive. I'm using currently stock Debian testing kernel: $ uname -a Linux sredniczarny 3.1.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 19:01:56 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.1.0-1-686-pae (Debian 3.1.4-1) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.2 (Debian 4.6.2-4) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 19:01:56 UTC 2011 $ 32-bit intel compatible cpu Regards, Witek -- Witold Baryluk