is there any bug in slink_fallbehind_update function? I use the dm-repl module, while the oops came as: localhost kernel: Oops: 0010 [#2] SMP Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: last sysfs file: /sys/module/scsi_transport_iscsi/version Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: Stack: Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: ffff88005f5019e0 0000000000000000 ffff8800574d58c0 0000000000000000 Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: 0000000000000000 ffff8800be3e3800 ffffffffa0320d50 0000000000000000 Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: Call Trace: Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffffa031ddb7>] ? slink_fallbehind_update+0x1f7/0x30e [dm_repl_log_ringbuffer] Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffffa0320d50>] ? do_log+0xf07/0x12ab [dm_repl_log_ringbuffer] Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffffa031c4aa>] ? data_endio+0x0/0x10 [dm_repl_log_ringbuffer] Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffffa031c4ba>] ? header_endio+0x0/0xd [dm_repl_log_ringbuffer] Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8020c9ee>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20 Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8022e37c>] ? update_curr+0x6f/0xaa Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffff80236661>] ? dequeue_task_fair+0x93/0x105 Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffff804aab5d>] ? thread_return+0x3d/0xb0 Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffffa031fe49>] ? do_log+0x0/0x12ab [dm_repl_log_ringbuffer] Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8024802c>] ? run_workqueue+0x7a/0x102 Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8024894c>] ? worker_thread+0xd5/0xe0 Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8024b2a6>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffff80248877>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0xe0 Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 21 06:42:27 2011 ... localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8024b176>] ? kthread+0x47/0x75 it seems there is something wrong in this section: list_for_each_entry(pos, L_SLINK_COPY_LIST(l), lists.l[E_WRITE_OR_COPY]) { struct slink_copy_context *cc; list_for_each_entry(cc, E_COPY_CONTEXT_LIST(pos), list) { if (cc->slink->ops->slink_number(cc->slink) == slink_nr) { ss->fb.head_jiffies = cc->start_jiffies; break; } } } maybe "cc->slink->ops->slink_number(cc->slink)" return an err? -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel