From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext2 triggers WARN_ON() when media is unplugged.
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:56:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090113155613.GF10064@duck.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090113134203.GA4354@elf.ucw.cz>
On Tue 13-01-09 14:42:05, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 2.6.29-rc1-git, pretty reproducible: mount -osync, start write
> workload, pull the drive.
Looking at the warning more in detail, this is actually a known problem.
When IO fails, the buffer_uptodate flag gets cleared. When we then try to
write the buffer again, we call mark_buffer_dirty() and this warning gets
emitted.
Sadly, fixing this correctly does not seem to be trivial...
Honza
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at /data/l/linux/fs/buffer.c:1250 mark_buffer_dirty+0x66/0x80()
> Hardware name: ANT
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 2970, comm: umount Not tainted 2.6.29-rc1 #263
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff8023da92>] warn_slowpath+0xf2/0x130
> [<ffffffff80273502>] find_get_pages+0x32/0xd0
> [<ffffffff8027ac67>] pagevec_lookup+0x17/0x20
> [<ffffffff8027b378>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x188/0x360
> [<ffffffff80297833>] cache_free_debugcheck+0x103/0x230
> [<ffffffff802bcd56>] mark_buffer_dirty+0x66/0x80
> [<ffffffff80331249>] ext2_sync_super+0x39/0x60
> [<ffffffff803320bc>] ext2_put_super+0xdc/0x100
> [<ffffffff8029dfbb>] generic_shutdown_super+0x6b/0x110
> [<ffffffff8029e089>] kill_block_super+0x29/0x50
> [<ffffffff8029e16f>] deactivate_super+0x5f/0x80
> [<ffffffff802b2746>] sys_umount+0x76/0x380
> [<ffffffff8022bb72>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0xa
> ---[ end trace 1a98d19d85775109 ]---
> scsi 1:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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2009-01-13 13:42 ext2 triggers WARN_ON() when media is unplugged Pavel Machek
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