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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext4_mb_generate_buddy and double-free errors
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:03:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B9BF09.6010306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236904175.731.12.camel@bobble.smo.corp.google.com>

Frank Mayhar wrote:
> We're seeing errors like:
>   EXT4-fs error (device sda3): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 3049: 21020 blocks in bitmap, 21529 in gd
> 
> Usually after this the system is cleaned and in the process we see many
> "mb_free_blocks: double-free of inode x's block y(bit z in group d)".
> (In fact, we see exactly as many of these as the difference between the
> group and computed count of free blocks.)
> 
> It looks like the bitmap itself is getting messed up somehow, at least
> enough to make the free count disagree with the map itself.  Has anyone
> else seen something like this?  Any pointers as to where to look for
> potential culprits?

Which kernel, for starters?

I saw some of those reports a while back; haven't since, though don't
know offhand what might have been the root cause or fix...

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-13  0:29 ext4_mb_generate_buddy and double-free errors Frank Mayhar
2009-03-13  2:03 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-03-13  3:22   ` Frank Mayhar
2009-03-13  3:25     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-03-13  3:32       ` Curt Wohlgemuth

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