Re: vanilla 2.5.13 severe file system corruption experienced follozing e2fsck ...

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Mon, May 06 2002, Sebastian Droege wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2002 15:48:03 +0200
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 06 2002, Sebastian Droege wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 May 2002 10:50:33 +0200
> > > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, May 06 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > > > > At 06:55 06/05/02, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > >On Sun, May 05 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > > > > >> Note even with that fix IDE (at least TCQ) is really easy to crash when 
> > > > > >you
> > > > > >> put the system under heavier I/O (at least on my via box)...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >If you have stumpled upon a tcq bug, I'd like to know more about it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Back trace (sorry didn't have ckermit running so didn't catch the whole 
> > > > > output and was too lazy to write it all down): blk_queue_invalidate_tags, 
> > > > > tcq_invalidate_queue, ide_dmaq_complete, ide_dmaq_intr, ata_irq_request, 
> > > > > ide_dmaq_intr, handle_IRQ_event, do_IRQ, ideprobe_init.
> > > > 
> > > > Same problem as Sebastian I'm sure, in which case the backtrace holds no
> > > > info for me, the IDE messages printed _before_ the panic would be
> > > > helpful though :-)
> > > Ok here they are (or do you mean the ide initialisation?):
> > > 
> > > [normal stuff]
> > > 
> > > ide_tcq_intr_timeout: timeout waiting for service interrupt...
> > > ide_tcq_intr_timeout: hwgroup not busy
> > > hda: invalidating pending queue (10)
> > > kernel BUG at ll_rw_blk.c:407!
> > 
> > Thanks, yes these were the messages I meant. Could you try 2.4.19-pre8
> > plus patches just posted?
> Ok... tested
> it panics with a NULL pointer dereference at 00000004 after
> 
> hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: WDC WD800BB-00BSA0, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: CD-W512EB, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: CD-532E-B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> [panic]
> 
> Sorry but I have no more time for testing and oops handcopying today
> I'll do that tomorrow

Ok thanks, it's probably the auto_poll check though. Could you try one
more boot, just commenting out the call to ide_tcq_check_autopoll() in
ide_enable_queued()? It's in drivers/ide/ide-tcq.c.

-- 
Jens Axboe