Re: jfs problem

From: Robert Hancock
Date: Tue Nov 18 2008 - 00:50:22 EST


Andrey Vul wrote:
I have a JFS problem occuring randomly. The hardware that this happens
on is an Asus M50VM laptop.

/dev/sda5 is mounted on /

Kernel version is 2.6.27.4 with dm-bbr (device mapper - bad block
relocation), fbcondecor, and squashfs patches.

dmesg:
[ 130.405776] DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:1f.2] fault addr fff9f000
[ 130.405780] DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set
[ 130.405828] ERROR: (device sda5): diRead: i_ino != di_number
[ 130.406133] ERROR: (device sda5): remounting filesystem as read-only
[ 130.406136]
[ 130.406146] jfs_lookup: iget failed on inum 188808
[ 131.212899] DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:1f.2] fault addr fff9f000
[ 131.212903] DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set
[ 131.212962] ERROR: (device sda5): stack overrun in dtSearch!
[ 131.212968] btstack dump:
[ 131.212972] bn = 0, index = 0
[ 131.212975] bn = 5402c5, index = 0
[ 131.212979] bn = 0, index = 0
[ 131.212982] bn = 5402c5, index = 0
[ 131.212985] bn = 0, index = 0
[ 131.212988] bn = 5402c5, index = 0
[ 131.212991] bn = 0, index = 0
[ 131.212995] bn = fffffffffffffff4, index = 7336
[ 131.213015] jfs_lookup: dtSearch returned -5

This doesn't look like any JFS problem, more like DMAR is blocking a write request from a controller to an area that it doesn't think should be writable. Can you post dmesg and lspci -vv from bootup?

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