Hi,
> Some of our dual CPU web servers with 2.4.12 are Oopsing while running
> quotacheck. They don't seem to die immediately, but oops many times and
> eventually break. The old tools didn't warn about quotachecking on a
> live file system, so some of our servers were set up to run quotacheck
> nightly. The new tools still allow you to do it, but warn that it may
> not be consistent. We didn't have any problems with 2.2 kernels.
>
> First oops, as already processed (grumble) by klogd:
>
> Oct 28 04:22:32 pro kernel: remove_free_dquot: dquot not on the free list??
> Oct 28 04:22:32 pro last message repeated 90 times
> Oct 28 04:22:32 pro kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
> ...dates stripped:
<snip>
Attached is the patch against 2.4.13 which should solve some SMP races... Can you try
it if it fixes your problems? I know also about one possible race during quotaoff()
which I'll fix tonight but that shouldn't be your case :).
Honza
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