Re: Assertion failed: atomic_read(&mp->m_active_trans)

Lachlan McIlroy
2008-12-02T03:25:19Z

That looks fine to me. Just make sure the PV doesn't get closed when
you check in the changes since the real problem is still unresolved.

Donald Douwsma wrote:
> We still occasionally see transactions in flight after remounting
> read-only. This has come up a few times in the past, but we never
> seem to have gotten to the bottom of it.
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/868139
>
> Most recently we've seen this on 2.6.27, when unmounting the root
> filesystem during shutdown/reboot.
>
> Stack traceback for pid 13170
> 0xffff81024dcd9080 13170 12901 1 1 R 0xffff81024dcd93c0 *mount
> rsp rip Function (args)
> 0xffff8101fb977d18 0xffffffff803b8acd assfail+0x1a (invalid, invalid, invalid)
> 0xffff8101fb977d50 0xffffffff803a57e4 xfs_attr_quiesce+0x4a (0xffff8102211e4b20)
> 0xffff8101fb977d70 0xffffffff803a589b xfs_mntupdate+0x7c (0xffff8102211e4b20, invalid, invalid)
> 0xffff8101fb977d90 0xffffffff803b7cf6 xfs_fs_remount+0x49 (invalid, 0xffff8101fb977dd4, invalid)
> 0xffff8101fb977dc0 0xffffffff802830fe do_remount_sb+0xe9 (0xffff81025c804670, invalid, 0xffff8101ee490000, invalid)
> 0xffff8101fb977e00 0xffffffff8029698d do_remount+0x7d (0xffff8101fb977e58, invalid, invalid, 0xffff8101ee490000)
> 0xffff8101fb977e40 0xffffffff802974fd do_mount+0x13b (0xffff8102079c2000, 0xffff8102004ea000, 0xffff810219cb0000, invalid, 0xffff8101ee490000)
> 0xffff8101fb977f20 0xffffffff8029761a sys_mount+0x89 (0x523d90, invalid, invalid, 0xffffffffc0ed0021, 0x523e30)
> 0xffff8101fb977f80 0xffffffff8020b18b system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b (invalid, invalid, invalid, invalid, invalid, invalid)
>
> Previously we've discussed changing the ASSERT_ALWAYS to a normal
> ASSERT to lessen the impact for users. Any objections to doing this
> until we fix the underlying problem?
>
> Don
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