Re: 2.6.1-mm2: BUG in kswapd?

[Walt H <waltabbyh@comcast.net>]

Maneesh Soni wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:10:37PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
>>Can you elaborate on the recreation scenario a little bit more or if possible
>>run this debug patch on top of -mm3. This should print some info about the 
>>bad dentry.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Walt,
> 
> Pleae run this debug patch instead of the previous one. Thanks to Andrew
> for suggestion.
> 
> 
>  fs/dcache.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff -puN fs/dcache.c~prune_dcache-debug fs/dcache.c
> --- linux-2.6.1-mm3/fs/dcache.c~prune_dcache-debug	2004-01-16 14:36:00.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.1-mm3-maneesh/fs/dcache.c	2004-01-16 15:41:26.000000000 +0530
> @@ -344,6 +344,12 @@ static inline void prune_one_dentry(stru
>  	struct dentry * parent;
>  
>  	__d_drop(dentry);
> +	if (dentry->d_child.next->prev != &dentry->d_child) {
> +		printk("Bad dentry for %s count %d %p %p\n", dentry->d_name.name, atomic_read(&dentry->d_count), dentry->d_child.next, dentry->d_child.prev);
> +		if (dentry->d_sb)
> +			printk("Super block magic %lx\n", dentry->d_sb->s_magic);
> +		BUG();
> +	}
>  	list_del(&dentry->d_child);
>  	dentry_stat.nr_dentry--;	/* For d_free, below */
>  	dentry_iput(dentry);
> 
> _
> 

OK. I've got -mm3 with this debug patch running now. Hopefully this will
give us more info.

My workload that causes this bug most readily to appear is:

Use the computer system for a few hours. Compile some apps, surf, email
etc...  At the end of the day, I typically shut down the system to
runlevel 1 to back it up. I've got a 2 disk md raid0 array that is my
primary working array, which I then backup to a 2 disk device mapper
raid0 array. An rsync from the primary to the secondary usually trips
the bug. If I boot the system and immediately do the rsync, it will
complete. It takes a period of uptime to trigger.

I've got a rather lengthy compile process now, so will try the rsync
after work and report on any debug success (rsync failures). Thanks,

-Walt