Re: Call trace at mm/page-writeback.c in 2.5.47

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 17:02:09 EST


Mark Haverkamp wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 11:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Mark Haverkamp wrote:
> > >
> > > While running a memory stress workload test on a 16 processor numa
> > > system, I received a number of call traces like the following:
> >
> > What is the workload? And in which journalling mode was ext3
> > being used?
>
> I am using bash-shared-mapping and the ext3 journaling mode was the
> default.

OK, thanks. The fact that we actually survive this, on ext3, on
a 16p NUMA-Q is fairly encouraging.

> ...
>
> I get about 10 of these each time I run. Usually after a few minutes of
> run time and all at once. Then no more.

The warning shuts itself up after 10 messages.
 
> I tried your suggestion and still got the call traces:
>
> buffer layer error at mm/page-writeback.c:559

I shall attempt to reproduce this, thanks.
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