Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

[Mel Gorman]

On (14/11/06 01:41), Andrew Morton didst pronounce:
> 
> Presently at
> 
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.19-rc5-mm2/
> 
> and will appear later at
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc5/2.6.19-rc5-mm2/
> 

Am seeing errors with systems using ext2. First machine is a plan old x86
using initramfs. Console output looks like;

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Starting udev
Creating devices
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 0, length 0
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_new_blocks: block(0) >= blocks count(5164) - block_group = 0, es == dff00400 

Second machine is a numaq with an ext2 root filesystem

hecking root file system...
fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
e2fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
/dev/sda1: clean, 310908/2240224 files, 2189096/4480119 blocks (check in
3 mounts)
System time was Tue Nov 14 17:06:21 UTC 2006.
Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
System Clock set. System local time is now Tue Nov 14 17:06:23 UTC 2006.
Cleaning up ifupdown...done.
Calculating module dependencies... done.
Loading modules...
All modules loaded.
Creating device-mapper devices...done.
Checking all file systems...
fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
Setting kernel variables ...
... done.
Mounting local filesystems...
Unable to find swap-space signature
Cleaning /tmp /var/run /var/lock.
Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done.
Setting up networking...done.
Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
Configuring network interfaces...BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#3!
 [<c0139233>] softlockup_tick+0x9e/0xac
 [<c0124a16>] update_process_times+0x4b/0x77
 [<c0132438>] handle_update_profile+0x1c/0x2a
 [<c010d45a>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x43/0x48
 [<c010d486>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x27/0x36
 [<c0103598>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30
 [<c01b3b80>] ext2_try_to_allocate+0xdb/0x152
 [<c01b3e72>] ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv+0x4b/0x1b2
 [<c01b42c6>] ext2_new_blocks+0x28d/0x4b3
 [<c01b667a>] ext2_alloc_blocks+0x4b/0xcd
 [<c01b674a>] ext2_alloc_branch+0x4e/0x1ae
 [<c01b36a8>] ext2_init_block_alloc_info+0x26/0x6d
 [<c01b6b9b>] ext2_get_blocks+0x23c/0x31d
 [<c0181c89>] alloc_buffer_head+0x38/0x3e
 [<c017f2ef>] alloc_page_buffers+0x6f/0xb2
 [<c01b6cb9>] ext2_get_block+0x3d/0x51
 [<c0180162>] __block_prepare_write+0x186/0x41b
 [<c0180c3c>] block_prepare_write+0x31/0x3f
 [<c01b6c7c>] ext2_get_block+0x0/0x51
 [<c013d470>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x227/0x62a
 [<c01b6c7c>] ext2_get_block+0x0/0x51
 [<c0173936>] file_update_time+0x3e/0xbc
 [<c013e08e>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x538/0x563
 [<c013b957>] find_get_page+0x22/0x43
 [<c013e1d2>] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd1
 [<c01616a9>] do_sync_write+0xda/0x117
 [<c012e45d>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x4b
 [<c011201c>] do_page_fault+0x394/0x6c8
 [<c0161787>] vfs_write+0xa1/0x167
 [<c0161909>] sys_write+0x4b/0x71
 [<c0102b40>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
 [<c0330033>] __mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath+0x7f/0x94
 =======================
BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#3!
 [<c0139233>] softlockup_tick+0x9e/0xac
 [<c0124a16>] update_process_times+0x4b/0x77
 [<c0132438>] handle_update_profile+0x1c/0x2a
 [<c010d45a>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x43/0x48
 [<c010d486>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x27/0x36
 [<c0103598>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30
 [<c01b3b79>] ext2_try_to_allocate+0xd4/0x152
 [<c01b3e72>] ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv+0x4b/0x1b2
 [<c01b42c6>] ext2_new_blocks+0x28d/0x4b3
 [<c01b667a>] ext2_alloc_blocks+0x4b/0xcd
 [<c01b674a>] ext2_alloc_branch+0x4e/0x1ae
 [<c01b36a8>] ext2_init_block_alloc_info+0x26/0x6d
 [<c01b6b9b>] ext2_get_blocks+0x23c/0x31d
 [<c0181c89>] alloc_buffer_head+0x38/0x3e
 [<c017f2ef>] alloc_page_buffers+0x6f/0xb2
 [<c01b6cb9>] ext2_get_block+0x3d/0x51
 [<c0180162>] __block_prepare_write+0x186/0x41b
 [<c0180c3c>] block_prepare_write+0x31/0x3f
 [<c01b6c7c>] ext2_get_block+0x0/0x51
 [<c013d470>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x227/0x62a
 [<c01b6c7c>] ext2_get_block+0x0/0x51
 [<c0173936>] file_update_time+0x3e/0xbc
 [<c013e08e>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x538/0x563
 [<c013b957>] find_get_page+0x22/0x43
 [<c013e1d2>] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd1
 [<c01616a9>] do_sync_write+0xda/0x117
 [<c012e45d>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x4b
 [<c011201c>] do_page_fault+0x394/0x6c8
 [<c0161787>] vfs_write+0xa1/0x167
 [<c0161909>] sys_write+0x4b/0x71
 [<c0102b40>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
 [<c0330033>] __mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath+0x7f/0x94
(message repeats a lot)

I've not investigated yet what patches might be at fault.
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