On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:24:02PM -0500, Kamal Dasu wrote: > I am running a simple test with xfs_io on Kernel 3.3 writing in > O_DIRECT mode and I get > > # /rt.sh > ++ DEV=/dev/sda2 > ++ RTDEV=/dev/sda3 > ++ MNT=/mnt/xfsmnt > ++ mkdir /mnt/xfsmnt > ++ mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda2 -r extsize=2m,rtdev=/dev/sda3 > meta-data=/dev/sda2 isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=983479 blks > = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=0 > data = bsize=4096 blocks=3933916, imaxpct=25 > = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks > naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 > log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2 > = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1 > realtime =/dev/sda3 extsz=2097152 blocks=240089416, > rtextents=468924 Patches are pending in 3.8 to fix the oops, but it won't fix your problems..... > Call Trace: > [<8050b82c>] _raw_spin_lock+0x4/0x30 > [<8021e71c>] _xfs_buf_find+0xa4/0x364 > [<8021ec4c>] xfs_buf_get+0x44/0x1ac > [<8021f078>] xfs_buf_read+0x28/0xf0 > [<8028c2bc>] xfs_trans_read_buf+0x204/0x304 > [<8028cb40>] xfs_rtbuf_get+0x140/0x160 > [<8028cebc>] xfs_rtfind_forw+0x8c/0x554 > [<8028e19c>] xfs_rtallocate_range+0xec/0x328 > [<8028f030>] xfs_rtallocate_extent_block+0x34c/0x3f4 > [<8028f1e0>] xfs_rtallocate_extent_size+0x108/0x3d4 > [<802901b4>] xfs_rtallocate_extent+0x190/0x1fc > [<80249f0c>] xfs_bmap_rtalloc+0x1bc/0x3f8 > [<8024d430>] xfs_bmapi_allocate+0xec/0x354 You are using the RT device, and it's asking for a realtime bitmap metadata block that is beyond the end of the data partition (the realtime allocator metadata is in the main data partition). That's the bug you need to find, because the oops is just the visible symptom of a deeper problem. i.e. find out why the realtime allocator is asking for a metadata block that doesn't exist.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs