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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: Eric Wheeler <lists@ewheeler.net>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: every boot gives: bcache/alloc.c:78 WARNING
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 17:33:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160804003351.GI31234@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.11.1608031707300.10662@mail.ewheeler.net>

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 05:26:30PM -0700, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> 
> > This happens on all kernels up to 4.7.
> > Sorry, it happens earlier than ethernet coming up or my storage, so I can't
> > use netconsole or other text dumps:
> > https://goo.gl/photos/ubsi6maZXsjkevYY7
> > 
> > Looks like the warning happens on the registration of one of my bcache, but
> > I can't tell which one or why.
> > 
> > Does the trace give any hints?
> > (please ignore the load modules errors below, different issue)
> 
> Does it cause a problem, or just warn?
 
No problem, but since it's a warning, I'm reporting it.

> It looks like something needs garbage collected but perhaps isn't.  
> 
> You could write to sysfs/.../trigger_gc:
>  
> https://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git/tree/Documentation/bcache.txt
> 	trigger_gc
> 	  Writing to this file forces garbage collection to run.

BTW both this and the just released 4.7.0 are still missing the
documentation updates I contributed months ago. Any idea what's going on
there?

> If that doesn't work, I wonder what increasing BUCKET_GC_GEN_MAX would do, 
> though I don't know if that is safe.  Its set to 96U, so its not on on a 
> bit boundary which sounds like it could be slightly safer---but I wouldn't 
> try it unless this is a test machine.

That's on the backing device, correct?
I have 3 of them, and I can only write to them way way later in the boot
process.
Should I do that one by one and see if I get output now?

Thanks,
Marc
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-04  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-03 23:19 every boot gives: bcache/alloc.c:78 WARNING Marc MERLIN
2016-08-04  0:26 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-08-04  0:33   ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2016-08-04  1:43     ` Eric Wheeler
2016-08-04  2:44       ` Eric Wheeler
2016-08-04  3:23         ` Marc MERLIN
2016-08-04  4:32           ` Eric Wheeler

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