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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Girish Shilamkar <girish@clusterfs.com>,
	Avantika Mathur <mathur@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC]JBD2: Fix journal checksum kernel oops on NUMA
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:20:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071102052031.GC18505@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193964035.4014.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Nov 01, 2007  17:40 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> Current journal checksumming patch failed fsstress test on NUMA. The 
> bh->b_data passed to the crc32_be () function could be NULL pointer, 
> which caused kernel oops immediately when running fsstress with -o 
> journal_checksum. It is because the page is part of highmem on NUMA box.
> We need to kmap the page before access the bh->b_data to calculate
> the checksums.

I have no objection to the patch, per-se, but I'm surprised that there
would ever be a buffer head pointing at a page in high memory?  That
seems contrary to what I would expect...

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Software Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-02  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30 18:16 jbd2_journal_commit_transaction oops Avantika Mathur
2007-08-31  9:21 ` Girish Shilamkar
2007-08-31 21:32   ` Avantika Mathur
2007-09-13  9:49     ` Girish Shilamkar
2007-11-02  0:40   ` [PATCH][RFC]JBD2: Fix journal checksum kernel oops on NUMA Mingming Cao
2007-11-02  5:20     ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-11-02 16:31       ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-03  1:36         ` Andreas Dilger
2007-11-05 16:04           ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-05 16:15             ` Andreas Dilger
2007-11-05 18:07               ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-05 23:21                 ` Mingming Cao
2007-11-06  1:33                   ` Andreas Dilger

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