On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 09:34:34AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > While testing this patchset without Jan's freeze work, I hit this assert. > > This one rings bells for me, but I can't find where it's been reported. > > -Ben > > > [56571.411824] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 > [56571.412798] IP: [<ffffffffa00bf477>] xfs_log_space_wake+0x17/0x140 [xfs] Which is failing on this: (gdb) l *(xfs_log_space_wake+0x17) 0xffffffff81482cb7 is in xfs_log_space_wake (fs/xfs/xfs_log.c:844). 839 struct xfs_mount *mp) 840 { 841 struct log *log = mp->m_log; 842 int free_bytes; 843 844 >>>>>>> if (XLOG_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(log)) 845 return; On this offset: $ pahole fs/xfs/xfs_log.o |grep -A 6 "^struct log" struct log { struct xfs_mount * l_mp; /* 0 8 */ struct xfs_ail * l_ailp; /* 8 8 */ struct xfs_cil * l_cilp; /* 16 8 */ struct xfs_buf * l_xbuf; /* 24 8 */ struct xfs_buftarg * l_targ; /* 32 8 */ uint l_flags; /* 40 4 */ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So the log pointer passed is NULL. That's the first definite sign that the problems you are seeing are all a result of log buffer IO completing after the log has been torn down. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs