From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:31:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:31:33 -0500 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:34723 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:31:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:42:30 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: livewire@gentoo.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.62 oops Message-Id: <20030217194230.7bf6f97b.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <200302172229.21528.livewire@gentoo.org> References: <200302172229.21528.livewire@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Feb 2003 03:41:26.0811 (UTC) FILETIME=[9D8DB6B0:01C2D6FF] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bob Johnson wrote: > > Running a stress test of 50 concurrent kernel tree cp's + md5sum the files on > 2.5.62 results in the following: > > Feb 17 21:53:41 livewire kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer > Feb 17 21:53:41 livewire kernel: buffer layer error at fs/buffer.c:1170 > Feb 17 21:53:41 livewire kernel: Pass this trace through ksymoops for > reporting It's not really an oops, although the bug which this is reporting could cause a crash. It is a known problem in the htree indexed directory code. I can reproduce it, but haven't had time to work on it. Chris Li has time to work on it, but cannot reproduce it. We'll get there.