From: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chen Shiyuan <csy@hjc.edu.sg>
Subject: Re: Kernel-2.4.17pre8 & invalidate: busy buffer
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:41:37 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20011213124137.ast@domdv.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011213092908.6764@smtp.wanadoo.fr>
You will see this message with LVM too when issuing vgscan/vgchange.
On 13-Dec-2001 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Currently while running on a RedHat Linux 7.2 box with kernel-
>>2.4.17pre8, whenever I run the "hdparm -t /dev/sda3" command, the
>>following error message will appear around 33+ times
>>in /var/log/messages as well as "dmesg" .
>>
>>invalidate: busy buffer
>>
>>The machine in question is a Dell PowerEdge 2550 with an AACRAID
>>controller and 2 x 18GB HDs in RAID-1 configuration and /dev/sda3 being
>>mount as / .
>
> That's interesting. I've been seeing this message for some time now
> (I think since around 2.4.15 at least, maybe longer). I modified the
> printk to display the device number, and at that time, it seemed to
> always originate from the partition that had a mounted HFS volume.
> So I just added that to my (long) list of HFS bugs to fix when I
> find enough time to dive into it.
>
> However, I just got a report from some users having the same message
> displayed when using parted and with no HFS partition (HFS filesystem
> not loaded). I personally see this messages when using/leaving MacOnLinux
> emulator (which is opening the block device of a partition that is also
> mounted), or when shutting down the box.
>
> Al, any clue ? Something you want me to do to track it further down ?
>
> Ben.
>
>
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Andreas Steinmetz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-13 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-12 16:23 Kernel-2.4.17pre8 & invalidate: busy buffer Chen Shiyuan
2001-12-12 16:36 ` IP -> hostname lookup in kernel module? Joe Wong
2001-12-12 16:35 ` antirez
2001-12-12 19:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-13 9:29 ` Kernel-2.4.17pre8 & invalidate: busy buffer Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-12-13 11:41 ` Andreas Steinmetz [this message]
2001-12-13 14:35 ` Ulrich Wiederhold
2001-12-13 15:26 ` Matt
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