Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 - ext3 locking issue?

Jiri Slaby
2006-08-10T11:39:25Z

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:43:20 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said:
>
>>> Usually this means that there's an IO request in flight and it got lost
>>> somewhere. Device driver bug, IO scheduler bug, etc. Conceivably a
>>> lost interrupt (hardware bug, PCI setup bug, etc).
>
>> Aug 9 14:30:24 turing-police kernel: [ 3535.720000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>
> Red herring. yum just wedged again, this time with no reference to floppy drive.
> Same traceback. Anybody have anything to suggest before I start playing
> hunt-the-wumpus with a -mm bisection?

Hmm, I have the accurately same problem...
yum + CFQ + BLK_DEV_PIIX + nothing odd in dmesg

[ 3438.574864] yum D 00000000 0 21659 3838
(NOTLB)
[ 3438.575098] e5c09d24 00000001 c180f5a8 00000000 e5c09ce0 c01683e8
fe37c0bc 000002c4
[ 3438.575388] 00001000 00000001 c18fbbd0 0023001f 00000007 f26cc560
c1913560 fe4166d5
[ 3438.575713] 000002c4 0009a619 00000001 f26cc66c c180ec40 c04ff140
e5c09d14 c01fad44
[ 3438.576039] Call Trace:
[ 3438.576113] [<c0373d3b>] io_schedule+0x26/0x30
[ 3438.576187] [<c014653c>] sync_page+0x39/0x45
[ 3438.576260] [<c0374401>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x41/0x64
[ 3438.576333] [<c01464ef>] __lock_page+0x57/0x5f
[ 3438.576405] [<c014f5f2>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x1b6/0x304
[ 3438.576480] [<c014f76f>] truncate_inode_pages+0x2f/0x40
[ 3438.576553] [<c01a7bc4>] ext3_delete_inode+0x29/0xf7
[ 3438.576627] [<c017f26b>] generic_delete_inode+0x65/0xe7
[ 3438.576701] [<c017f3aa>] generic_drop_inode+0xbd/0x173
[ 3438.576774] [<c017ed25>] iput+0x6b/0x7b
[ 3438.576846] [<c017cc57>] dentry_iput+0x68/0xb3
[ 3438.576919] [<c017d99e>] dput+0x4f/0x19f
[ 3438.576990] [<c0176164>] sys_renameat+0x1e0/0x212
[ 3438.577063] [<c01761be>] sys_rename+0x28/0x2a
[ 3438.577135] [<c01030fb>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

regards,
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Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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