Mingming, On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:06:26AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > After almost 15 minutes into the test > > dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=51200 > > Ext4 file system mounted with -o noextents gives me > > > EXT4-fs error (device sdb): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 1: 912 blocks in bitmap, 898 in gd > > Call Trace: > [c0000000e64f6ac0] [c00000000000fbe0] .show_stack+0x70/0x1bc (unreliable) > [c0000000e64f6b70] [c0000000001a0674] .ext4_error+0x74/0x9c > [c0000000e64f6c10] [c0000000001ad490] .ext4_mb_init_cache+0x5d0/0x95c > [c0000000e64f6d80] [c0000000001aeb04] .ext4_mb_load_buddy+0x24c/0x350 > [c0000000e64f6e30] [c0000000001b04d0] .ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x4fc/0xe08 > [c0000000e64f6f70] [c0000000001b3acc] .ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x158/0x700 > [c0000000e64f7040] [c000000000191f58] .ext4_new_blocks+0xc4/0xf8 > [c0000000e64f7140] [c0000000001963dc] .ext4_get_blocks_handle+0x444/0xb60 > [c0000000e64f7320] [c000000000196c50] .ext4_get_blocks_wrap+0x158/0x1cc > [c0000000e64f73f0] [c000000000196fd8] .ext4_get_block+0xd0/0x140 > [c0000000e64f74b0] [c000000000112804] .__block_prepare_write+0x1f8/0x4a8 > [c0000000e64f75f0] [c000000000112bc0] .block_write_begin+0xa8/0x13c > [c0000000e64f76b0] [c000000000198cf0] .ext4_write_begin+0x128/0x240 > [c0000000e64f77b0] [c0000000000a941c] .generic_file_buffered_write+0x154/0x708 > [c0000000e64f78f0] [c0000000000a9d48] .__generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x378/0x3ec > [c0000000e64f79f0] [c0000000000a9e3c] .generic_file_aio_write+0x80/0x114 > [c0000000e64f7ab0] [c000000000192d60] .ext4_file_write+0xc8/0x180 > [c0000000e64f7b60] [c0000000000e3a3c] .do_sync_write+0xc4/0x124 > [c0000000e64f7cf0] [c0000000000e4264] .vfs_write+0xd8/0x1bc > [c0000000e64f7d90] [c0000000000e4be0] .sys_write+0x4c/0x8c > [c0000000e64f7e30] [c00000000000872c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 > I guess the below patch needs more testing. Can you make sure it is not pushed upstream soon. ext4-use-inode-preallocation-with-noextents.patch -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
