XFS support for ARMv5

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:30:09AM -0600, Andy Poling wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Ofer Heifetz wrote:
>> Here is the dmesg I got for mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/usb:
>> SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
>> XFS mounting filesystem sda3
>> Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sda3 (logdev: internal)
>> XFS: xlog_recover_process_data: bad clientid
>> XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5
>> XFS: log mount failed
>
> See this thread in the archives for a patch that may fix this:
>
> 	http://oss.sgi.com/pipermail/xfs/2009-October/042805.html

I don't think it's the case you found, although the symptoms are the
same.  I'd rather guess this is a case of an architecture with virtually
indexed caches (can anyone confirm the cache architecture?) which
doesn't cope too well with the way we use vmap to write into a buffer
through virtually mapped linear addresses, but then do block I/O using
the physical addresses of the individual pages.  James Bottomley has a
patchset to fix this issue by introducing APIs that allow the
architecture specific memory management to cope with it.  He're a
version I could quickly find, although newer ones have been posted
since:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/4364

The patchset is planned to get merged into Linux 2.6.33.