Mike Gao wrote: > Thanks very much for help. The kernel is pretty old, 2.6.19 but the xfs > is pretty new. > the block size is 512 and use mmap for test with write and read compare. > (xfstest 074). Ok so just xfstests 074 with a 512-byte block? I will test that when I get a chance.... > If I ignored this ASSERT(comment out), the test will failed. I guess > because some pages never written to disk. *nod* I'm afraid that makes sense, it's ignoring this because it thinks it's a hole: /* * A hole may still be marked uptodate because discard_buffer * leaves the flag set. */ if (!buffer_mapped(bh) && buffer_uptodate(bh)) { ASSERT(!buffer_dirty(bh)); imap_valid = 0; continue; } It appears that in your case it should not be a hole... -Eric > Assertion failed: !buffer_dirty(bh), file: fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c, > line: 1399 > BUG: failure at fs/xfs/support/debug.c:108/assfail()! > Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG! > > EIP: 0073:[<b76f5424>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 007b:b75a6fa8 EFLAGS: > 00000246 > Not tainted > EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000e97 ECX: 00000013 EDX: 00000e97 > ESI: 00000e93 EDI: 00000011 EBP: b75a6fc4 DS: 007b ES: 007b > 0a7d7c94: [<0806bd41>] show_regs+0xc5/0xca > 0a7d7cc0: [<0805a920>] panic_exit+0x25/0x3f > 0a7d7cd4: [<0807b5d5>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x1d/0x33 > 0a7d7cf4: [<0807048f>] panic+0x4c/0xcf > 0a7d7d10: [<081724cd>] xfs_hex_dump+0x0/0x7 > 0a7d7d1c: [<08168e26>] xfs_vm_writepage+0x226/0x656 > 0a7d7dbc: [<0809092f>] generic_writepages+0x164/0x27b > 0a7d7e4c: [<0816926c>] xfs_vm_writepages+0x16/0x18 > 0a7d7e5c: [<08090a6a>] do_writepages+0x24/0x38 > 0a7d7e70: [<080bbe8b>] __writeback_single_inode+0x16d/0x2de > 0a7d7ebc: [<080bc1ba>] sync_sb_inodes+0x1be/0x25c > 0a7d7ef4: [<080bc299>] writeback_inodes+0x41/0x6c > 0a7d7f08: [<080905b5>] background_writeout+0x66/0x93 > 0a7d7f54: [<0809106a>] pdflush+0xca/0x154 > 0a7d7f88: [<08080a83>] kthread+0xb6/0xe6 > 0a7d7fb4: [<080663ee>] run_kernel_thread+0x37/0x41 > 0a7d7fe0: [<0805acee>] new_thread_handler+0x64/0x8b > 0a7d7ffc: [<a55a5a5a>] 0xa55a5a5a _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs