On 3/3/17 3:04 AM, Abdul Haleem wrote: > Hi, > > Reboot fails for PowerPC machine running RHEL7.3 (3.10.0-514.el7) > following these messages: Generally it's best to report RHEL bugs to Red Hat. > SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, no debug enabled > XFS (dm-0): Mounting V5 Filesystem > FS (dm-0): Starting recovery (logdev: internal) > XFS (dm-0): Metadata corruption detected at 0x60000000382100b0, xfs_agf > block 0x4b00001 > XFS (dm-0): Unmount and run xfs_repair > XFS (dm-0): First 64 bytes of corrupted metadata buffer: > c0000000f06b7200: 58 41 47 46 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 03 00 32 00 00 XAGF.........2.. > c0000000f06b7210: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ................ > c0000000f06b7220: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 76 00 00 00 02 ...........v.... > c0000000f06b7230: 00 00 00 04 00 2d 0c c7 00 2a 14 62 00 00 00 00 .....-...*.b.... > XFS (dm-0): metadata I/O error: block 0x4b00001 > ("xfs_trans_read_buf_map") error 117 numblks 1 > Failed to mount /sysroot. > > Steps to recreate: > Run some file system test (ltp or xfs/086) on 4.10.0 upstream kernel > built on the PowerVM LPAR after the test completes, reboot the machine > back to base kernel, boot falls to dracut mode with above messages, > every time it requires a xfs_repair to recover the file system. ... though Red Hat might tell you that running upstream kernels is out of the supported realm. However, this probably has to do with AGF packing changes. > c0000000f06b7200: 58 41 47 46 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 03 00 32 00 00 XAGF.........2.. magic version sequence length > c0000000f06b7210: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ................ agf roots agf levels > c0000000f06b7220: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 76 00 00 00 02 ...........v.... flfirst fllast > c0000000f06b7230: 00 00 00 04 00 2d 0c c7 00 2a 14 62 00 00 00 00 .....-...*.b.... flcount freeblocks longest btreeblks The AGF verifier does: if (!(agf->agf_magicnum == cpu_to_be32(XFS_AGF_MAGIC) && XFS_AGF_GOOD_VERSION(be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_versionnum)) && be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_freeblks) <= be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_length) && be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_flfirst) < XFS_AGFL_SIZE(mp) && be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_fllast) < XFS_AGFL_SIZE(mp) && be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_flcount) <= XFS_AGFL_SIZE(mp))) return false; where: #define XFS_AGFL_SIZE(mp) \ (((mp)->m_sb.sb_sectsize - \ (xfs_sb_version_hascrc(&((mp)->m_sb)) ? \ sizeof(struct xfs_agfl) : 0)) / \ sizeof(xfs_agblock_t)) and "struct xfs_agfl" packing has changed between rhel7 and upstream, due to an early bug related to nailing down that on-disk format :/ Presumably this is what xfs_repair found and fixed? -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html