Re: [Bug #39732] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 2512725). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.

Witold Baryluk
2011-12-13T04:11:44Z

On 08-28 21:01, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39732
> Subject : JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 2512725). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
> Submitter : Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
> Date : 2011-07-22 04:22 (38 days old)
>

Hi,

This bug still exists in 3.1.0 and 3.2.0-rc5

I spoted it again few days ago, because I moved from me laptop with 2GB
to temporary desktop with 256MB of RAM, and not it
triggers like a mad.

So my initial suspicious that it only shows up on big memory
presure was correct.

It is just like this
# dmesg | grep dirty
[122647.953872] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1019852). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122647.954598] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1043195). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122647.955213] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1043197). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122689.978864] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 498559). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122705.485461] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 68282). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122705.486046] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 68284). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122705.496916] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 68365). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122705.612423] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 69218). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122706.531297] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 833896). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122720.863807] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 914979). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122721.046789] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 890090). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122721.088280] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 916474). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122721.176979] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 928182). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122721.177593] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 927783). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122721.371654] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 920655). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122721.543676] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 967035). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122728.396687] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1043474). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122736.283876] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 713478). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122743.576350] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 745551). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122743.889259] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 828117). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122752.077022] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 905082). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122752.125005] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 905294). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122752.784390] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1030306). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[122752.785053] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-3, blocknr = 1031593). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
#

dm-4 is ext4 partition mounted at /var
dm-4 is on LVM on luksCrypt on ATA drive.

I'm using currently stock Debian testing kernel:
$ uname -a
Linux sredniczarny 3.1.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 19:01:56 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.1.0-1-686-pae (Debian 3.1.4-1) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.2 (Debian 4.6.2-4) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 19:01:56 UTC 2011
$

32-bit intel compatible cpu

Regards,
Witek

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Witold Baryluk