BUG: Assertion failure with ext3-0.95 for 2.4.7

[Christian Borntraeger]

Hello ext3-users,

I tested ext3 on a Linux for S/390 with several stress and benchmark test
tests and faced a kernel bug message.
The console showed the following output:

Message from syslogd@boeaet34 at Fri Aug  3 11:34:16 2001 ...
boeaet34 kernel: Assertion failure in journal_forget() at
transaction.c:1184: "!
jh->b_committed_data"

I tried the Patch from http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ext3-2.4-0.9.5-247.gz
with the kernel 2.4.7 with a new LVM- patch(0.9.1)  and some S/390 specific
patches. I use mke2fs version 1.22.
S/390 is a 32bit big endian machine. After compiling and running the kernel
I created an ext3-file system on an 70GB LVM. When running the postmark
test I get (reproduceable) the message from above. dmesg shows:

kernel BUG at transaction.c:1184!
illegal operation: 0001
CPU:    1
Process bench (pid: 2453, stackpage=08CEF000)

Kernel PSW:    07080000 8007f458         =journal_forget
task: 08cee000 ksp: 08cefaa8 pt_regs: 08cefa10
Kernel GPRS:
00000000  8001c118  00000022  00000001
8007f456  00c27000  00194f9a  00000001
030d2c80  074ed294  00001899  092ca350
0001f94c  8007f2c8  8007f456  08cefaa8
Kernel ACRS:
00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000
00000001  00000000  00000000  00000000
00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000
00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000
Kernel BackChain  CallChain
       08cefaa8   [<0007f456>]                =journal_forget
       08cefb10   [<000744c6>]                =ext3_forget
       08cefb70   [<000767b4>]                =ext3_clear_blocks
       08cefbd8   [<000768d4>]                =ext3_free_data
       08cefc50   [<00076c38>]                =ext3_truncate
       08cefd08   [<00074732>]                =ext3_delete_inode
       08cefd68   [<0006659a>]                =iput
       08cefdc8   [<00063dfc>]                =d_delete

I resolved the functions using the system.map file.

Has anyone saw this message before? Any ideas, clues, hints?

Please CC me , because I am not on the list.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards

Christian Bornträger
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
eServer SW  System Evaluation + Test
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