Re: another problem with latest code drops

[Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@xxxxxxx>]

Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:06:21PM +1000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> > fsstress started reporting these errors
> >
> > fsstress: check_cwd failure
> > fsstress: check_cwd failure
> > fsstress: check_cwd failure
> > fsstress: check_cwd failure
> > fsstress: check_cwd failure
> > ...
> >
> > The filesystem is mounted on /mnt/data but the mount point is now toast.
> >
> > wipeout:/mnt # mount
> > ...
> > /dev/mapper/dm0 on /mnt/data type xfs (rw,logdev=/dev/ram0,nobarrier)
> >
> >
> > wipeout:/mnt # ls -alF
> > /bin/ls: data: Input/output error
> > total 4
> > drwxr-xr-x  6 root root   57 Aug  8 03:09 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Oct 15 11:56 ../
> > ?---------  0 root root    0 Dec 31  1969 data
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    6 Jul 16 08:21 home/
> I bet the filesystem has been shut down....
>
> [snip]
>
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449760] Filesystem "dm-0": XFS internal 
> > error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1164 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c.  Caller 0xffffffff8118
> > d422
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449773] Pid: 6679, comm: fsstress Not 
> > tainted 2.6.27-rc8 #192
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449775] Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout 
> > kernel: [79179.449775] Call Trace:
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449784]  [<ffffffff81176d54>] 
> > xfs_error_report+0x3c/0x3e
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449789]  [<ffffffff8118d422>] ? 
> > xfs_rename+0x703/0x745
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449795]  [<ffffffff8118e9cb>] 
> > xfs_trans_cancel+0x5f/0xfc
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449799]  [<ffffffff8118d422>] 
> > xfs_rename+0x703/0x745
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449805]  [<ffffffff8119d4b2>] 
> > xfs_vn_rename+0x5d/0x61
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449810]  [<ffffffff810ab449>] 
> > vfs_rename+0x2b2/0x42e
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449815]  [<ffffffff810ad0f2>] 
> > sys_renameat+0x16d/0x1e3
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449821]  [<ffffffff810a66d2>] ? 
> > sys_newstat+0x31/0x3c
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449826]  [<ffffffff810ad17e>] 
> > sys_rename+0x16/0x18
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449831]  [<ffffffff8100bf3b>] 
> > system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout kernel: [79179.449835] Oct 16 09:54:54 wipeout 
> Ah, yes. A shutdown in a directory transaction. Have you applied the
> fix to the directory block allocation transaction accounting that was one
> of the last patches I posted?
Yes, I checked that in yesterday and ran with it overnight.

> If so, then there's some other problem in that code that we'll
> need a reproducable test case to be able to find....
I was running 8 copies of this command:
fsstress -p 64 -n 10000000 -d /mnt/data/fsstress.$i

I tried it again but this time the system ran out of memory
and locked up hard.  I couldn't see why though - maybe a memory
leak.