Re: [PATCH] ext4: initialize multi-block allocator before checking block descriptors

[tytso@mit.edu]

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On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 08:17:13PM +0400, a3at.mail@gmail.com wrote:
> And no complaints from xfs-tests, and no errors in dmesg.
> 
> Could you give me more information about you playground?

I just reproduced the problem this way.  Starting with the ext4 dev
branch of the ext4 git tree[1], which should be commit eb3e7abb161ad5,
I applied your patch, as found in the ext4 patch queue's git tree[2],
with the name initialize-multi-block-allocator-before-checking-block-descriptors

I then ran a fairly recent version of xfstests (commit 3948694eb),
under KVM with the kernel built using the 32-bit x86 architecture,
with the KVM set up with 4 CPU's, and 2048 megs of memory.  The 20 gig
partition I used was formatted using "mke2fs -t ext4 -O bigalloc", and
I used the mount options "-o block_validity" (this enables some
additional sanity checking).

The ext4 errors showed up when running xfstests ext4/305 this time
around.  Please see the attached compressed log file.

Cheers,

					- Ted

[1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
[2] git://repo.or.cz/ext4-patch-queue.git


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