On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:06:40 -0400
> From: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
> To: Lukas Czerner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>,
>     "Linux Kernel [email protected] List"
>     <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Subject: Re: ext4fs error
>     "ext4_mb_generate_buddy:741:group 16, 8160 clusters in bitmap, 4064 in gd"
>      (with repro)
> 
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 12:00:09PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Here is how to reproduce it.  It happens during fstrim.  I found other
> > occurrences of the error in the mailing list, but they were not related
> > to trim so they may be something different.
> > 
> > modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=256 lbpws=1
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M      
> > fdisk /dev/sdb
> >  >> create a new partition accepting all defaults
> > fdisk -lu /dev/sdb|tail -1
> >  >> should show: /dev/sdb1     57      524285      262114+  83  Linux
> > 
> > mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
> > mkdir test
> > mount /dev/sdb1 test
> > fstrim ./test
> 
> I can confirm that this accurately reproduces file system corruption
> using a 3.5 kernel.  It looks like some block allocation bitmap blocks
> is getting trimmed when it shouldn't have been.  Lukas, can you take a
> look at this?
> 
>                                       - Ted

Hi Ted,

sorry for the delay, I've just got back from my vacation. I'll take
a look at it.

Thanks!
-Lukas
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