Re: Oops while running xfstests on Power architecture

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On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 21:56 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:17:48PM -0800, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I see the following Oops when I run the test 070 on power Architecture.
> > Looking at the code, I do not see anything that is popping out as a
> > problem.
> > 
> > I do not see the same failures in x86_64, so, I thought it may be due to
> > the pagesize, so changed the pagesize to be 4k, but that didn't help.
> > 
> > Is this assertion a false-positive ?
> > 
> > If not, Any suggestions on where to start looking at the code.
> > 
> > I see the same Oops with 2.6.37, 2.6.38-rc2 and 2.6.38-rc3.
> 
> It's an assert failure, not an oops:

Sorry for the misfiling :) (it does print an oops thouth)..
> 
> > Feb  3 14:01:30 mytestmachine kernel: Assertion failed: args->op_flags & XFS_DA_OP_OKNOENT, file: fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c, line: 1428
> 
> XFS_DA_OP_OKNOENT is set when an operation on the
> directory/attribute can be expected to get an ENOENT error.
> If it is not set, then the attribute/dirent is expected to be
> present in the tree, and there's something wrong if it is not.
> 
> e.g. if you are removing an attribute, it is expected to be in the
> tree.
> 
> PowerPC used to get regular QA coverage but hasn't for the past
> couple of years, so it probably is a relatively recent problem.
> I'd suggest the first thing to do is to try older kernels to
> determine if the problem is specific to newer kernels, and if so, a
> git bisect is probably your best bet to finding the commit that
> introduced the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will follow through.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.


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