Hi, I have the following kernel (2.6.23) crash on a 2-cpu smp 32b x86 system. The crash is intermittent and seems to happen w/ md raid 1 sync. As you can see one of the cpu's is running the md_thread while the other was in kjournald. Is there a known race condn between kjournald and md_thread threads? Any idea what the problem is? Thanks. <6>md: md0 stopped. <6>md: bind<sda1> <6>md: bind<sdb1> <6>raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors <6>md: md1 stopped. <6>md: bind<sda2> <6>md: bind<sdb2> <6>raid1: raid set md1 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors <6>md: md2 stopped. <6>md: bind<sda3> <6>md: bind<sdb3> <6>raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors <6>md: md3 stopped. <6>md: bind<sda5> <6>md: bind<sdb5> <6>raid1: raid set md3 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors <6>md: md4 stopped. <6>md: bind<sda6> <6>md: bind<sdb6> <6>raid1: raid set md4 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors <6>md: md5 stopped. <6>md: bind<sda7> <6>md: bind<sdb7> <3>md: md5: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction <6>raid1: raid set md5 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors <6>md: resync of RAID array md5 <6>md: minimum _guaranteed_ speed: 1000 KB/sec/disk. <6>md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 20000 KB/sec) for resync. <6>md: using 128k window, over a total of 7339904 blocks. <6>md: md6 stopped. <6>md: bind<sda8> <6>md: bind<sdb8> <6>raid1: raid set md6 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors <6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds <6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. <6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds <6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. <6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds <6>EXT3 FS on md2, internal journal <6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. <6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds <6>EXT3 FS on md5, internal journal <6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. <6>EXT3 FS on md0, internal journal <6>Adding 4138872k swap on /dev/md3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4138872k <6>EXT3 FS on md0, internal journal <6>bonding: bond0: setting mode to balance-rr (0). <6>tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. <6>tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. <6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds <6>EXT3 FS on md4, internal journal <6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. <6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds <6>EXT3 FS on md6, internal journal <6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. <0>Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at fs/jbd/commit.c:693: "((&bh->b_count)->counter) == 0" <0>------------[ cut here ]------------ <2>kernel BUG at fs/jbd/commit.c:693! <0>invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] <0>PREEMPT SMP <0>CPU: 1 <0>EIP: 0060:[<c02c1149>] Tainted: P VLI <0>EFLAGS: 00010296 (2.6.23.waas #4) <0>EIP is at journal_commit_transaction+0x879/0xe00 <0>eax: 00000096 ebx: f76bcf00 ecx: ffffffff edx: f7588ac0 <0>esi: f6c66f88 edi: c0651dcd ebp: c6549f5c esp: c6549ec4 <0>ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 <0>Process kjournald (pid: 1684, ti=c6548000 task=c39db580 task.ti=c6548000) <0>Stack: c0651de8 c0651dcd c0651e44 000002b5 c0651fa0 00000000 00000000 f7f63414 <0> f7f634dc 00000000 00000fcc f7435034 00000000 00000000 c6402000 00000000 <0> f7f63400 f7386fc0 000005d7 f77fb580 c39db580 f70bdd74 00000202 c70f8000 <0>Call Trace: <0> [<c0203a1a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 <0> [<c0203aea>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9a/0xc0 <0> [<c0203d46>] show_registers+0x1d6/0x340 <0> [<c020403d>] die+0x10d/0x220 <0> [<c02041e1>] do_trap+0x91/0xd0 <0> [<c0204419>] do_invalid_op+0x89/0xa0 <0> [<c06317e2>] error_code+0x72/0x78 <0> [<c02c3845>] kjournald+0xb5/0x1f0 <0> [<c0232a5c>] kthread+0x5c/0xa0 <0> [<c020388b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c <0> ======================= <0>Code: 65 c0 b8 a0 1f 65 c0 bf cd 1d 65 c0 89 44 24 10 b8 b5 02 00 00 89 44 24 0c b8 44 1e 65 c0 89 7c 24 04 89 44 24 08 e8 57 de f5 ff <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 43 34 85 c0 75 4e 8b 53 38 85 d2 0f 84 9e 00 00 <0>EIP: [<c02c1149>] journal_commit_transaction+0x879/0xe00 SS:ESP 0068:c6549ec4 <6>SysRq : Changing Loglevel <4>Loglevel set to 7 [0]kdb> btc btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu 0 Available cpus: 0-1 Stack traceback for pid 1609 0xc69ce000 1609 2 1 0 R 0xc69ce1e0 *md5_resync esp eip Function (args) 0xc69e5d4c 0xc028fef3 bio_alloc_bioset+0xb3 (0x11200, invalid, 0xc70e3060) 0xc69e5d78 0xc028ffbe bio_alloc+0xe 0xc69e5d80 0xc054f6d7 r1buf_pool_alloc+0x37 (0x11200, 0xc39ca0c0) 0xc69e5da4 0xc024aff6 mempool_alloc+0x26 (0xf7e7dcc0, invalid) 0xc69e5de0 0xc0552624 sync_request+0x1f4 (0xf7f40a00, 0xa2ce80, 0x0, 0xc69e5ea0, 0x0) 0xc69e5e40 0xc056667f md_do_sync+0x4ef (0xf7f40a00) 0xc69e5f78 0xc0564f55 md_thread+0x35 (0xf7e7dc80) 0xc69e5fd0 0xc0232a5c kthread+0x5c (invalid) Stack traceback for pid 1684 0xc39db580 1684 2 1 1 R 0xc39db760 kjournald esp eip Function (args) kdb_bb: address 0xffffffff not recognised Using old style backtrace, unreliable with no arguments esp eip Function (args) 0xc6549eb8 0xc02c1149 journal_commit_transaction+0x879 0xc6549f28 0xc0227945 lock_timer_base+0x25 0xc6549f40 0xc0227b6a try_to_del_timer_sync+0x4a 0xc6549f60 0xc02c3845 kjournald+0xb5 0xc6549f88 0xc0233040 autoremove_wake_function 0xc6549f94 0xc062f8e1 __sched_text_start+0x1f1 0xc6549fa8 0xc0233040 autoremove_wake_function [0]kdb> -- 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