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SubjectRe: Help tracking down problem --- endless loop in __find_get_block_slow
zensonic@zensonic.dk (Thomas S. Iversen) wrote:
>
> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testfile count=N, N>6
>
> It turns out N>6 is variable. But large enough and it will hang. Sugests
> some kind of race I am afraid.
>
> > > I get into an endless loop in __find_get_block_slow.
> >
> > The only way in which __find_get_block_slow() can loop is if something
> > wrecked the buffer_head ring at page->private: something caused an internal
> > loop via bh->b_this_page.
> >
> > Are you sure that's where things are hanging? That it's not stuck on a
> > spinlock?
>
> I get the same message again and again all over (this trace with
> count=100 and a BUG() and panic inserted into buffer.c)
>
> Feb 23 13:38:34 localhost kernel: __find_get_block_slow() failed.
> block=101, b_blocknr=100
> Feb 23 13:38:34 localhost kernel: b_state=0x00000010, b_size=2048
> Feb 23 13:38:34 localhost kernel: device blocksize: 2048

OK, so we're looking for the buffer_head for block 101 and the first
buffer_head which is attached to the page represents block 100. So the
next buffer_head _should_ represent block 101. Please print it out:

--- 25/fs/buffer.c~a 2005-02-23 04:06:12.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/fs/buffer.c 2005-02-23 04:06:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -459,8 +459,10 @@ __find_get_block_slow(struct block_devic
*/
if (all_mapped) {
printk("__find_get_block_slow() failed. "
- "block=%llu, b_blocknr=%llu\n",
- (unsigned long long)block, (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
+ "block=%llu, b_blocknr=%llu, next=%llu\n",
+ (unsigned long long)block,
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_this_page->b_blocknr);
printk("b_state=0x%08lx, b_size=%u\n", bh->b_state, bh->b_size);
printk("device blocksize: %d\n", 1 << bd_inode->i_blkbits);
}
_

> Ad inf. The output of the BUG() is show below. My questions remain:
>
> 1. Whos fault is this?

Could be UFS. But what does "transparent block encryption and sector
shuffling" mean? How is the sector shuffling implemented?
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