Re: 2.6.10-rc2-bk7 - kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/file.c:87!

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Wed, Nov 24 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:18:00PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 24 2004, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:26:43PM +0000, Christopher S. Aker wrote:
> > > > Doing "cat /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/show_status" produces the following BUG:
> > > > 
> > > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > > kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/file.c:87!
> > > 
> > > I think you are using cfq io scheduler. show_status is from cfq_ioched. Looks 
> > > like return value freom cfq_status_show() is going beyond one page. 
> > > read/write buffer for sysfs text attribute files is limited to one page. 
> > 
> > Yeah, with many processes that is easy to hit. I dunno how to fix it
> > yet, is it possible to combine sysfs with the seq stuff? The file should
> > just be deleted, though.
> 
> sysfs files should have only 1 value per file.  You really have a single
> value that is bigger than a page size?  :)

It's pi with a lot of decimals :)

I know, it's a debug entry to be able to watch what is going on inside
the scheduler. Everything doesn't fit nicely into a one-value-per-file
system.

-- 
Jens Axboe