From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca
Subject: Re: perf bug: bad page map
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:06:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131119070644.GE32367@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1311182055490.20279@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu>
* Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:41:22 -0500 (EST)
> > Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:04:23PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > (figured out the minicom issue).
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway while trying to reproduce the last bug I instead got this with
> > > > > the perf_fuzzer.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it worth continuing to run and report these issues? I'm losing track
> > > > > of all the open bugs.
> > > >
> > > > This is looks like ext4. Not entirely sure how perf ties into this.
> > >
> > > It's believable the filesystem could have issues (it's a fuzzer machine,
> > > so it's had 100+ unclean shutdowns on an SSD drive in the past few months)
> > > but as far as I know there shouldn't have been any filesystem accesses
> > > happening at all when the bug triggered.
> >
> > Obvious question - does it pass fsck currently. If it does then
> > presumably it was sane at the time it went pop ?
>
> # e2fsck -f /dev/sda1
> e2fsck 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> /dev/sda1: 620972/3514368 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 9796212/14047744 blocks
>
> so it looks clean now...
Also, in no way should a corrupted filesystem be able to provoke
kernel crashes. So even if the filesystem had errors, this would still
be a kernel bug we need to fix.
Thanks,
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-19 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-15 18:04 perf bug: bad page map Vince Weaver
2013-11-18 15:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-18 15:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-18 16:41 ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-18 17:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-18 23:05 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2013-11-19 1:57 ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-19 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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