Hi Leandro,
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:13:13 -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Ryusuke Konishi, el 15 de junio a las 03:02 me escribiste:
> [snip]
> > > Here is the complete trace:
> > > http://pastebin.lugmen.org.ar/4931
> > 
> > Thank you for your help.
> > 
> > According to your log, there seems to be a leakage in clear processing
> > of the writeback flag on pages.  I will review the error path of log
> > writer to narrow down the cause.

Here is a patch that hopefully fixes the hang problem after
bio_alloc() failed.  This is composed of three separate patches, but I
now attach them together.

If you still see problems with it, please let me know.
 
> Oh! I forgot to tell you that the cleanerd process was not running. When
> I mounted the NILFS2 filesystem the cleanerd daemon said:
> 
> nilfs_cleanerd[29534]: start
> nilfs_cleanerd[29534]: cannot create cleanerd on /dev/loop0
> nilfs_cleanerd[29534]: shutdown
> 
> I thought I might have an old utilities version and that could be because
> of that (since the nilfs website was down I couldn't check), but now
> I checked in the backup nilfs website that latest version is 2.0.12 and
> I have that (Debian package), so I don't know why the cleanerd failed to
> start in the first place.

The message indicates that initialization of the cleanerd failed.

I don't know for sure, but another memory allocation failure might
cause it.

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi
---
Ryusuke Konishi (3):
      nilfs2: fix mis-conversion of error code by unlikely directive
      nilfs2: fix hang problem of log writer that follows on write failures
      nilfs2: remove incorrect warning in nilfs_dat_commit_start function

 fs/nilfs2/dat.c     |    9 ---------
 fs/nilfs2/segment.c |   28 +++++++---------------------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/dat.c b/fs/nilfs2/dat.c
index bb8a581..e2646c3 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/dat.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/dat.c
@@ -149,15 +149,6 @@ void nilfs_dat_commit_start(struct inode *dat, struct 
nilfs_palloc_req *req,
        entry = nilfs_palloc_block_get_entry(dat, req->pr_entry_nr,
                                             req->pr_entry_bh, kaddr);
        entry->de_start = cpu_to_le64(nilfs_mdt_cno(dat));
-       if (entry->de_blocknr != cpu_to_le64(0) ||
-           entry->de_end != cpu_to_le64(NILFS_CNO_MAX)) {
-               printk(KERN_CRIT
-                      "%s: vbn = %llu, start = %llu, end = %llu, pbn = %llu\n",
-                      __func__, (unsigned long long)req->pr_entry_nr,
-                      (unsigned long long)le64_to_cpu(entry->de_start),
-                      (unsigned long long)le64_to_cpu(entry->de_end),
-                      (unsigned long long)le64_to_cpu(entry->de_blocknr));
-       }
        entry->de_blocknr = cpu_to_le64(blocknr);
        kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
 
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
index 22c7f65..e8f188b 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
@@ -1846,26 +1846,13 @@ static int nilfs_segctor_write(struct nilfs_sc_info 
*sci,
                err = nilfs_segbuf_write(segbuf, &wi);
 
                res = nilfs_segbuf_wait(segbuf, &wi);
-               err = unlikely(err) ? : res;
+               err = unlikely(err) ? err : res;
                if (unlikely(err))
                        return err;
        }
        return 0;
 }
 
-static int nilfs_page_has_uncleared_buffer(struct page *page)
-{
-       struct buffer_head *head, *bh;
-
-       head = bh = page_buffers(page);
-       do {
-               if (buffer_dirty(bh) && !list_empty(&bh->b_assoc_buffers))
-                       return 1;
-               bh = bh->b_this_page;
-       } while (bh != head);
-       return 0;
-}
-
 static void __nilfs_end_page_io(struct page *page, int err)
 {
        if (!err) {
@@ -1889,12 +1876,11 @@ static void nilfs_end_page_io(struct page *page, int 
err)
        if (!page)
                return;
 
-       if (buffer_nilfs_node(page_buffers(page)) &&
-           nilfs_page_has_uncleared_buffer(page))
-               /* For b-tree node pages, this function may be called twice
-                  or more because they might be split in a segment.
-                  This check assures that cleanup has been done for all
-                  buffers in a split btnode page. */
+       if (buffer_nilfs_node(page_buffers(page)) && !PageWriteback(page))
+               /*
+                * For b-tree node pages, this function may be called twice
+                * or more because they might be split in a segment.
+                */
                return;
 
        __nilfs_end_page_io(page, err);
@@ -1957,7 +1943,7 @@ static void nilfs_segctor_abort_write(struct 
nilfs_sc_info *sci,
                        }
                        if (bh->b_page != fs_page) {
                                nilfs_end_page_io(fs_page, err);
-                               if (unlikely(fs_page == failed_page))
+                               if (fs_page && fs_page == failed_page)
                                        goto done;
                                fs_page = bh->b_page;
                        }
-- 
1.6.2

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