From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: Eric Wheeler <bcache@lists.ewheeler.net>
Cc: Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@gmail.com>,
Christoph Nelles <evilazrael@evilazrael.de>,
linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c:237
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:17:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160226001713.GC29543@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.11.1602252341070.3635@mail.ewheeler.net>
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:44:01PM +0000, Eric Wheeler wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 06:18:03PM +0800, Zhu Yanhai wrote:
> > > Marc,
> > > When did you *first* see this BUG_ON? During boot up or far after the
> > > whole system is up?
> >
> > I setup bcache, had it work a bit.
> > During shutdown, it crapped out when syncing/unmounting
>
> Do you have more information about what crapped out on shutdown?
> Memory?
> IO Error?
> Just hung so the reset button was pushed?
Sadly, I didn't record that carefully. I remember a kernel traceback and
system hang, but that's about it.
> Was there a backtrace?
Yes, but not captured :(
> It might be a good idea to use netconsole and point it at a syslog
> server to catch the whole backtrace.
Next time sure, but too late now, and no netconsole if the system crashes
before I can even bring the ethernet up.
> > After each subsequent boot, the system crashed as soon as the module loaded
> > and scanned my disks.
>
> So just to clarify, the current BUG_ON discussed is happening at boot, and
> is not the mid-shutdown error that first happened?
Correct. The only reason my system is booting right now is that I hid the
partition where the bcache cache is, so it doesn't get seen at boot.
If it's there, as soon as the kernel boots and bcache activates, it crashes.
I'm keeping it in case you want me to try a patch to see if it'll stop the
crashing at boot.
Hence my request for a way to turn off bcache as a kernel command line option
to allow for recovery in such cases.
Sadly even if we don't have perfect state on how we got there, bad data
shouldn't cause bcache to crash the kernel at boot. It could refuse to make
the cache active, log an error, and move on.
Marc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-26 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-15 6:04 echo dev > /sys/fs/bcache/register gives page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x2040d0 Marc MERLIN
2016-02-15 12:02 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-02-15 15:32 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-15 15:45 ` Christoph Nelles
2016-02-23 16:32 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-23 20:57 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-24 20:45 ` BUG: drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c:237 Marc MERLIN
2016-02-25 0:58 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-02-25 6:41 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-02-25 7:36 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-02-25 10:08 ` Zhu Yanhai
2016-02-26 2:38 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-02-26 2:46 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-26 3:19 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-26 4:55 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-02-26 16:27 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-26 21:17 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-03-03 4:17 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-03-03 4:25 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-25 10:18 ` Zhu Yanhai
2016-02-25 15:20 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-25 23:44 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-02-26 0:17 ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2016-02-15 12:11 ` echo dev > /sys/fs/bcache/register gives page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x2040d0 Kent Overstreet
2016-02-24 6:53 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-02-24 16:37 ` Disabling bcache from boot when it crashes? Marc MERLIN
2016-02-24 19:10 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-02-25 5:48 ` Marc MERLIN
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