[Lustre-discuss] panic on jbd:journal_dirty_metadata

[Michael Sternberg]

Wojciech,

Thank you very much for your pointer.  Perhaps the fact that the OSTs are nearly full contributes(?). I also see higher usage.

In any case, I'll attempt compilation with the patch applied.


With best regards,
Michael


On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:16 , Wojciech Turek wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> This looks like the problem we had some time ago after upgrading to 1.8.3
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22889
> 
> Best regards
> Wojciech
> 
> On 20 July 2010 00:00, Michael Sternberg <sternberg at anl.gov> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use OSSs with external journal partitions and since lustre-1.8.1 about one to two times a week I get frustrating panics on OSSs as follows:
> 
>        :libcfs:cfs_alloc ...
>        :lvfs:lprocfs_counter_add ...
>        ...
> 
>        RIP [<ffffffff88031e64>] :jbd:journal_dirty_metadata+0x7f/0x1e3
>          RSP <ffff8101f99c3670>
>          <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
>