On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:06:24 -0400 (EDT), CAI Qian wrote: > Bisect indicated this is the culprit, > > 0e401101db49959f5783f6ee9e676124b5a183ac > ext4: fix memory leakage in mext_check_coverage Strange... It changes a bug in move_extent.c (e4defrag functionality) ASAIU you just previously stopped your bisecting process here. Right? Is this indeed a first bad commit? > > This following with Dmitry's debug patch applied, > > CAI Qian > > Ý 101.408610¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 753 es_cached ex Ý56/5/744 > 81/20¨ != found ex Ý56/5/3396400/0¨ retval 0 flags 5 > Ý 209.858899¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý57/7/332 > 82/20¨ != found ex Ý57/7/3396400/0¨ retval 0 flags 5 > Ý 209.860656¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý25/1/332 > 50/20¨ != found ex Ý25/1/0/0¨ retval 0 flags 0 > Ý 209.893587¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý22/1/332 > 47/20¨ != found ex Ý22/1/34838/1000¨ retval 1 flags 0 > Ý 209.913482¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý27/1/329 > 40/20¨ != found ex Ý27/1/0/0¨ retval 0 flags 0 > Ý 209.919950¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý59/5/338 > 48/20¨ != found ex Ý59/5/3396400/0¨ retval 0 flags 5 > Ý 209.931856¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý7/1/3292 > 0/20¨ != found ex Ý7/1/35879/20¨ retval 1 flags 43 > Ý 209.969282¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý35/1/361 > 97/20¨ != found ex Ý35/1/36197/1000¨ retval 1 flags 0 > Ý 209.969290¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý48/1/362 > 10/20¨ != found ex Ý48/1/0/0¨ retval 0 flags 0 > Ý 209.980724¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý13/4/334 > 89/20¨ != found ex Ý13/4/2161372/0¨ retval 0 flags 5 > Ý 209.980744¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý61/3/335 > 37/20¨ != found ex Ý61/3/3396400/0¨ retval 0 flags 5 > Ý 209.983848¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý44/2/335 > 20/20¨ != found ex Ý44/2/36216/20¨ retval 2 flags 43 > Ý 210.020041¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý61/3/341 > 91/20¨ != found ex Ý61/3/3396400/0¨ retval 0 flags 5 > Ý 210.050100¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý22/11/34 > 565/20¨ != found ex Ý22/11/3396400/0¨ retval 0 flags 5 > Ý 210.053271¨ ES cache assertation failed for inode: 384 es_cached ex Ý15/1/334 > 90/20¨ != found ex Ý15/1/33579/1000¨ retval 1 flags 1 It does not looks like bigendian issue, actually I cant find any logical system in the log. The only thing I see is that es_cache is horribly out of sync with extent_tree. Please try this patch: