XFS mounting fails on MIPS

[Ajeet Yadav]

True, its the same system and you were right it was cache VIPT cache problem
the cache hold the stale value even after xlog_bread() update the buffer.
I do not know whether its correct ways to resolve the problem, but the
problem no longer occur.


diff -Naur -X fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c fs-dirty/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c

--- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c 2010-07-18 12:27:11.000000000 +0530

+++ fs-dirty/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c 2010-10-25 11:01:28.252762355 +0530

@@ -1166,6 +1166,13 @@

xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, -error);

+ if (!error &&

+ (bp->b_flags & XBF_MAPPED) &&

+ (bp->b_page_count > 1) &&

+ (bp->b_flags & XBF_READ)) {

+ dma_cache_inv((unsigned long)bp->b_addr,

+ (bp->b_page_count * PAGE_SIZE) - bp->b_offset);

+ }

do {

struct page *page = bvec->bv_page;

@@ -1275,6 +1282,10 @@

submit_io:

if (likely(bio->bi_size)) {

+ if ((bp->b_flags & XBF_MAPPED) && (bp->b_page_count > 1)) {

+ dma_cache_wback_inv((unsigned long)bp->b_addr,

+ (bp->b_page_count * PAGE_SIZE) - bp->b_offset);

+ }

submit_bio(rw, bio);

if (size)

goto next_chunk;


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:27:24AM +0530, Ajeet Yadav wrote:
> > Linux XFS version : 2.6.34
> > Architecure: MIPS
> > I am getting the following error during mount.
>
> Is this the same mips system that you have the vmap aliasing problems
> during log recovery with?
>
> As long as that is not fixed I would deeply distrust any callchain
> from the recovery code like this one.
>
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