From: Eric Whitney Subject: Re: ext4: journal has aborted Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 12:36:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20140701163646.GA3126@wallace> References: <20140701082619.1ac77f1d@archvile> <20140701084206.GG9743@birch.djwong.org> <53B2A47F.90903@samsung.com> <20140701155812.GD2775@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jaehoon Chung , "Darrick J. Wong" , Matteo Croce , David Jander , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: Received: from mail-qg0-f48.google.com ([209.85.192.48]:54810 "EHLO mail-qg0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755421AbaGAQgt (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2014 12:36:49 -0400 Received: by mail-qg0-f48.google.com with SMTP id q108so3534436qgd.7 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140701155812.GD2775@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Theodore Ts'o : > On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:07:27PM +0900, Jaehoon Chung wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i have interesting for this problem..Because i also found the same problem.. > > Is it Journal problem? > > > > I used the Linux version 3.16.0-rc3. > > > > [ 3.866449] EXT4-fs error (device mmcblk0p13): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:756: group 0, 20490 clusters in bitmap, 20488 in gd; block bitmap corrupt. > > [ 3.877937] Aborting journal on device mmcblk0p13-8. > > [ 3.885025] Kernel panic - not syncing: EXT4-fs (device mmcblk0p13): panic forced after error > > This message means that the file system has detected an inconsistency > --- specifically, that the number of blocks marked as in use in the > allocation bbitmap is different from what is in the block group > descriptors. > > The file system has been marked to force a panic after an error, at > which point e2fsck will be able to repair the inconsistency. > > What's not clear is *how* the why this happened. It can happen simply > because of a hardware problem. (In particular, not all mmc flash > devices handle power failures gracefully.) Or it could be a cosmic, > ray, or it might be a kernel bug. > > Normally I would chalk this up to a hardware bug, bug it's possible > that it is a kernel bug. If people can reliably reproduce the problem > where no power failures or other unclean shutdowns were involved > (since the last time file system has been checked using e2fsck) then > that would be realy interesting. Hi Ted: I saw a similar failure during 3.16-rc3 (plus ext4 stable fixes plus msync patch) regression on the Pandaboard this morning. A generic/068 hang on data_journal required a reboot for recovery (old bug, though rarer lately). On reboot, the root filesystem - default 4K, and on an SD card - went ro after the same sort of bad block bitmap / journal abort sequence. Rebooting forced a fsck that cleared up the problem. The target test filesystem was on a USB-attached disk, and it did not exhibit the same problems on recovery. So, it looks like there might be more than just hardware involved here, although eMMC/flash might be a common denominator. I'll see if I can come up with a reliable reproducer once the regression pass is finished if someone doesn't beat me to it. Eric > > We should probably also change the message so the message is a bit > more understanding to people who aren't ext4 developers. > > - Ted > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html