Similar issue on an X86 router: # dmesg Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Linux version 3.15.0-alix (root@alix) (gcc version 4.8.3 (Debian 4.8.3-2) ) #2 Mon Jun 9 16:54:44 CEST 2014 KERNEL supported cpus: AMD AuthenticAMD e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000f0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000000fffffff] usable BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fff00000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection missing in CPU! e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] usable ==> reserved e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable e820: last_pfn = 0x10000 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000 initial memory mapped: [mem 0x00000000-0x017fffff] Base memory trampoline at [c009b000] 9b000 size 16384 init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff] [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff] page 4k init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x0fc00000-0x0fffffff] [mem 0x0fc00000-0x0fffffff] page 2M init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x08000000-0x0fbfffff] [mem 0x08000000-0x0fbfffff] page 2M init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00100000-0x07ffffff] [mem 0x00100000-0x003fffff] page 4k [mem 0x00400000-0x07ffffff] page 2M 256MB LOWMEM available. mapped low ram: 0 - 10000000 low ram: 0 - 10000000 Zone ranges: DMA [mem 0x00001000-0x00ffffff] Normal [mem 0x01000000-0x0fffffff] Movable zone start for each node Early memory node ranges node 0: [mem 0x00001000-0x0009ffff] node 0: [mem 0x00100000-0x0fffffff] On node 0 totalpages: 65439 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 3999 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 480 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 61440 pages, LIFO batch:15 e820: [mem 0x10000000-0xffefffff] available for PCI devices pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768 pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 64927 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.15.0-alix root=/dev/sda1 ro console=ttyS0,115200 panic=1 init=/bin/systemd PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Initializing CPU#0 Memory: 255748K/261756K available (2409K kernel code, 151K rwdata, 628K rodata, 160K init, 236K bss, 6008K reserved) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xfffe5000 - 0xfffff000 ( 104 kB) vmalloc : 0xd0800000 - 0xfffe3000 ( 759 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0000000 ( 256 MB) .init : 0xc1320000 - 0xc1348000 ( 160 kB) .data : 0xc125aaef - 0xc131ece0 ( 784 kB) .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc125aaef (2410 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok. SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=cf808000 soft=cf80a000 console [ttyS0] enabled tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT tsc: Detected 498.030 MHz processor Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 996.06 BogoMIPS (lpj=4980300) pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0 Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0, 1GB 0 tlb_flushall_shift: -1 CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (fam: 06, model: 0a, stepping: 02) Performance Events: no APIC, boot with the "lapic" boot parameter to force-enable it. no hardware sampling interrupt available. Broken PMU hardware detected, using software events only. Failed to access perfctr msr (MSR c0010004 is 0) devtmpfs: initialized NET: Registered protocol family 16 cpuidle: using governor ladder cpuidle: using governor menu PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfced9, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 3.00 loaded. PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: root bus 00: using default resources PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00 pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000-0xffff] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x00000000-0xffffffff] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff] pci 0000:00:01.0: [1022:2080] type 00 class 0x060000 pci 0000:00:01.0: reg 0x10: [io 0xac1c-0xac1f] pci 0000:00:01.2: [1022:2082] type 00 class 0x101000 pci 0000:00:01.2: reg 0x10: [mem 0xefff4000-0xefff7fff] pci 0000:00:09.0: [1106:3053] type 00 class 0x020000 pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 0x10: [io 0x1000-0x10ff] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 0x14: [mem 0xe0000000-0xe00000ff] pci 0000:00:09.0: supports D1 D2 pci 0000:00:09.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold pci 0000:00:0c.0: [168c:0029] type 00 class 0x028000 pci 0000:00:0c.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0xe0040000-0xe004ffff] pci 0000:00:0c.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot pci 0000:00:0f.0: [1022:2090] type 00 class 0x060100 pci 0000:00:0f.0: reg 0x10: [io 0x6000-0x6007] pci 0000:00:0f.0: reg 0x14: [io 0x6100-0x61ff] pci 0000:00:0f.0: reg 0x18: [io 0x6200-0x623f] pci 0000:00:0f.0: reg 0x20: [io 0x9d00-0x9d7f] pci 0000:00:0f.0: reg 0x24: [io 0x9c00-0x9c3f] pci 0000:00:0f.2: [1022:209a] type 00 class 0x010180 pci 0000:00:0f.2: reg 0x20: [io 0xff00-0xff0f] pci 0000:00:0f.2: legacy IDE quirk: reg 0x10: [io 0x01f0-0x01f7] pci 0000:00:0f.2: legacy IDE quirk: reg 0x14: [io 0x03f6] pci 0000:00:0f.2: legacy IDE quirk: reg 0x18: [io 0x0170-0x0177] pci 0000:00:0f.2: legacy IDE quirk: reg 0x1c: [io 0x0376] pci 0000:00:0f.4: [1022:2094] type 00 class 0x0c0310 pci 0000:00:0f.4: reg 0x10: [mem 0xefffe000-0xefffefff] pci 0000:00:0f.4: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold pci 0000:00:0f.5: [1022:2095] type 00 class 0x0c0320 pci 0000:00:0f.5: reg 0x10: [mem 0xefffd000-0xefffdfff] pci 0000:00:0f.5: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold pci_bus 0000:00: busn_res: [bus 00-ff] end is updated to 00 PCI: pci_cache_line_size set to 32 bytes Switched to clocksource pit pci_bus 0000:00: resource 4 [io 0x0000-0xffff] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 5 [mem 0x00000000-0xffffffff] NET: Registered protocol family 2 TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048) TCP: reno registered UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) NET: Registered protocol family 1 platform rtc_cmos: registered platform RTC device (no PNP device found) futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes) msgmni has been set to 499 Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered (default) Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 921600) is a NS16550A scsi0 : pata_cs5536 scsi1 : pata_cs5536 ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xff00 irq 14 ata2: DUMMY rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: alarms up to one day, 114 bytes nvram TCP: cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 10 NET: Registered protocol family 17 rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: setting system clock to 2000-01-01 00:00:04 UTC (946684804) ata1.00: CFA: , 20101012, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 62537328 sectors, multi 0: LBA ata1.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA 2010 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 62537328 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk EXT4-fs (sda1): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities EXT4-fs (sda1): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities EXT4-fs (sda1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem EXT4-fs (sda1): write access will be enabled during recovery Switched to clocksource tsc EXT4-fs (sda1): orphan cleanup on readonly fs EXT4-fs (sda1): 1 orphan inode deleted EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1. devtmpfs: mounted Freeing unused kernel memory: 160K (c1320000 - c1348000) Write protecting the kernel text: 2412k Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 632k systemd[1]: systemd 204 running in system mode. (+PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ) systemd[1]: Inserted module 'autofs4' systemd[1]: Set hostname to <alix>. random: systemd urandom read with 30 bits of entropy available systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details. systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-ttyS0.device... systemd[1]: Starting Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch. systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch. systemd[1]: Starting Syslog Socket. systemd[1]: Listening on Syslog Socket. systemd[1]: Starting Delayed Shutdown Socket. systemd[1]: Listening on Delayed Shutdown Socket. systemd[1]: Starting /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe. systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe. systemd[1]: Starting Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch. systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch. systemd[1]: Starting Encrypted Volumes. systemd[1]: Reached target Encrypted Volumes. systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Socket. systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket. systemd[1]: Starting udev Control Socket. systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket. systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point. systemd[1]: Starting Journal Socket. systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket. systemd[1]: Starting Syslog. systemd[1]: Reached target Syslog. systemd[1]: Mounted Huge Pages File System. systemd[1]: Started Set Up Additional Binary Formats. systemd[1]: Starting Create static device nodes in /dev... systemd[1]: Starting Apply Kernel Variables... systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules... systemd[1]: Starting udev Coldplug all Devices... systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service... systemd[1]: Started Journal Service. systemd[1]: Mounted POSIX Message Queue File System. systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-sda2.device... systemd[1]: Starting File System Check on Root Device... cs5535-smb cs5535-smb: SCx200 device 'CS5535 ACB0' registered cs5535-mfgpt cs5535-mfgpt: reserved resource region [io 0x6200-0x623f] cs5535-mfgpt cs5535-mfgpt: 8 MFGPT timers available cs5535-mfd 0000:00:0f.0: 5 devices registered. systemd[1]: Started Create static device nodes in /dev. systemd[1]: Started Apply Kernel Variables. cs5535-mfgpt cs5535-mfgpt: registered timer 0 cs5535-clockevt: Registering MFGPT timer as a clock event, using IRQ 7 systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager... systemd-udevd[317]: starting version 204 EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro cs5535-gpio cs5535-gpio: reserved resource region [io 0x6100-0x61ff] via_rhine: v1.10-LK1.5.1 2010-10-09 Written by Donald Becker via-rhine 0000:00:09.0 eth0: VIA Rhine III (Management Adapter) at 0xe0000000, 00:0d:b9:19:4c:bc, IRQ 10 via-rhine 0000:00:09.0 eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 05e1 Link 0000 AMD Geode RNG detected geode-aes: GEODE AES engine enabled. cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver ohci-pci: OHCI PCI platform driver ohci-pci 0000:00:0f.4: OHCI PCI host controller ohci-pci 0000:00:0f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ohci-pci 0000:00:0f.4: irq 12, io mem 0xefffe000 ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected ehci-pci 0000:00:0f.5: EHCI Host Controller ehci-pci 0000:00:0f.5: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 ehci-pci 0000:00:0f.5: irq 12, io mem 0xefffd000 cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time) cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 0 mBm), (N/A) ehci-pci 0000:00:0f.5: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0 ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a ath: Country alpha2 being used: US ath: Regpair used: 0x3a ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht' ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9280 Rev:2 mem=0xd0940000, irq=9 IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time) cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 3000 mBm), (N/A) cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 1700 mBm), (N/A) cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2300 mBm), (0 s) cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 3000 mBm), (N/A) cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 4000 mBm), (N/A) Adding 858932k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:858932k random: nonblocking pool is initialized IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready EXT4-fs error (device sda1): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:756: group 114, 24855 clusters in bitmap, 24856 in gd; block bitmap corrupt. Aborting journal on device sda1-8. EXT4-fs (sda1): Remounting filesystem read-only # e2fsck -fy /dev/sda1 e2fsck 1.42.10 (18-May-2014) /dev/sda1: recovering journal Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Free blocks count wrong (6708644, counted=6708655). Fix? yes Free inodes count wrong (1752623, counted=1752627). Fix? yes /dev/sda1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** /dev/sda1: ***** REBOOT LINUX ***** /dev/sda1: 147917/1900544 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 893521/7602176 blocks 2014-07-01 18:36 GMT+02:00 Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx>: > * Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>: >> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:07:27PM +0900, Jaehoon Chung wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > i have interesting for this problem..Because i also found the same problem.. >> > Is it Journal problem? >> > >> > I used the Linux version 3.16.0-rc3. >> > >> > [ 3.866449] EXT4-fs error (device mmcblk0p13): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:756: group 0, 20490 clusters in bitmap, 20488 in gd; block bitmap corrupt. >> > [ 3.877937] Aborting journal on device mmcblk0p13-8. >> > [ 3.885025] Kernel panic - not syncing: EXT4-fs (device mmcblk0p13): panic forced after error >> >> This message means that the file system has detected an inconsistency >> --- specifically, that the number of blocks marked as in use in the >> allocation bbitmap is different from what is in the block group >> descriptors. >> >> The file system has been marked to force a panic after an error, at >> which point e2fsck will be able to repair the inconsistency. >> >> What's not clear is *how* the why this happened. It can happen simply >> because of a hardware problem. (In particular, not all mmc flash >> devices handle power failures gracefully.) Or it could be a cosmic, >> ray, or it might be a kernel bug. >> >> Normally I would chalk this up to a hardware bug, bug it's possible >> that it is a kernel bug. If people can reliably reproduce the problem >> where no power failures or other unclean shutdowns were involved >> (since the last time file system has been checked using e2fsck) then >> that would be realy interesting. > > Hi Ted: > > I saw a similar failure during 3.16-rc3 (plus ext4 stable fixes plus msync > patch) regression on the Pandaboard this morning. A generic/068 hang > on data_journal required a reboot for recovery (old bug, though rarer lately). > On reboot, the root filesystem - default 4K, and on an SD card - went ro > after the same sort of bad block bitmap / journal abort sequence. Rebooting > forced a fsck that cleared up the problem. The target test filesystem was on > a USB-attached disk, and it did not exhibit the same problems on recovery. > > So, it looks like there might be more than just hardware involved here, > although eMMC/flash might be a common denominator. I'll see if I can come up > with a reliable reproducer once the regression pass is finished if someone > doesn't beat me to it. > > Eric > > >> >> We should probably also change the message so the message is a bit >> more understanding to people who aren't ext4 developers. >> >> - Ted >> -- >> 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 -- Matteo Croce OpenWrt Developer -- 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