Hi, On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:17, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> I looked at few journalling bugs recently on RHEL4 testing here. > I am wondering if your patch fixes this following BUG also ? > I never got to bottom of some of these journal panics - > since they are not easily reproducible Right... > + I don't understand > journal code well enough :( Fortunately this one seems to be a simple locking violation, nothing subtle in the jbd layers. > Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at fs/jbd/commit.c:790: > "jh->b_next_transaction == ((void *)0)" > kernel BUG in journal_commit_transaction at fs/jbd/commit.c:790! I'm assuming that's the line J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_next_transaction == NULL); in the t_forget loop. That's not one of the most common footprints I saw due to this bug, but it's certainly a possible one. We saw one case where a bh from the wrong transaction was linked onto the j_locked_list, due to it being freed then reused while in use; and if that can happen, pretty much anything can go wrong afterwards! --Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/