Bug 556560 - ext4 gives ext4_mb_generate_buddy after resume from hibernate
Summary: ext4 gives ext4_mb_generate_buddy after resume from hibernate
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 12
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Eric Sandeen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-18 17:57 UTC by Bingo
Modified: 2010-12-04 00:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-12-04 00:11:34 UTC
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Description Bingo 2010-01-18 17:57:16 UTC
Description of problem:
I have a Fedora 12 system installed, kernel 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64. After resume from hibernate, with almost 50% probability, the filesystem (ext4) starts giving strange problems. The filesystem was newly formatted when installing Fedora 12 i.e. it is not a migrated ext3 filesystem. I describe the symptoms below:

1. dmesg shows:
EXT4-fs error (device sdc5): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 1: 190 blocks in bitmap, 93 in gd

2. Impossible to create new files. I get "file not found" error when running 

touch /tmp/newfile

3. Most applications behave weirdly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
About 50% chances.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 12, x86_64, ext4 root partition (not a migrated ext3)
2. Hibernate and then resume
3. touch /tmp/newfile
  
Actual results:
Creation of the file /tmp/newfile, without any error

Expected results:
file "/tmp/newfile" not found. dmesg shows something like:
EXT4-fs error (device sdc5): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 1: 190 blocks in bitmap, 93 in gd

Additional info:
Installed using live CD with gnome desktop environment. Hibernate using System -> Shutdown -> Hibernate. System is up to date till Jan 18, but the problem exists right from the day of installation.

Comment 1 Bingo 2010-01-18 18:05:56 UTC
I have mixed up the "Actual results:" and "Expected results:" above. Can I edit to correct it?

Comment 2 Bingo 2010-01-18 18:11:16 UTC
All mount options are default.

Comment 3 Eric Sandeen 2010-05-05 16:54:35 UTC
Sorry for not seeing this sooner.  Do you still have this problem with the 2.6.32 kernels in F12?

Thanks,
-Eric

Comment 4 Bingo 2010-05-05 17:43:14 UTC
Don't know, because I switched to jfs because of this problem. I will try ext4 again and update this bug.

Comment 5 Eric Sandeen 2010-05-05 17:53:54 UTC
Thanks, I appreciate it!

If it's related to hibernate, it could maybe be some form of memory corruption ... but just guessing here.

-Eric

Comment 6 Bingo 2010-05-06 06:07:28 UTC
If you mean malfunctioning RAM modules, I had tested my RAM using memtest86 for 12 hours during the days when I had this problem. So I guess chances of malfunctioning RAM modules are pretty slim.

If you mean some kernel memory corruption, I don't know about that.

Comment 7 David L. 2010-05-20 11:58:11 UTC
Confirmed in FC13 with kernel 2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64

Comment 8 Eric Sandeen 2010-05-21 17:11:18 UTC
For those hitting the problem:

Just to test a theory, could you try doing "hdparm -W" on your disk(s) to check the write cache status?

If it's 1 (on), then prior to hibernate, can you try hdparm -W 0 on the disk(s) and see if the problem persists?  I'm wondering if it's possible that data in the drive's write cache got lost when the system powered down, if it wasn't properly flushed during hibernate.

You'll want to do hdparm -W 1 later to turn them back on if that was the original state.

Thanks,

-Eric

Comment 9 Eric Sandeen 2010-06-16 03:11:14 UTC
For those hitting it, are you using intel i915 video?

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13811
  Bug 13811 -  [GM965/KMS/UXA] memory corruption on resume from hibernate

-Eric

Comment 10 Mihai Harpau 2010-06-16 07:38:23 UTC
Yes, I see this bug on a Dell Latitude E5400 laptop with GM45/KMS/UXA.

Comment 11 Eric Sandeen 2010-06-16 18:02:44 UTC
It would be interesting to hibernate from text mode / runlevel 3 with the video driver blacklisted/unloaded, and see if the problem goes away, I suppose.

Comment 12 Mihai Harpau 2010-06-18 09:37:34 UTC
If I do the following:
- F13 boot on runlevel 3 with "nomodeset 3" on grub line
- from root prompt run "modprobe -r i915"
- run pm-hibernate

then I don't see anymore the messages from comment 1 and all is fine.

Comment 13 Eric Sandeen 2010-06-18 14:49:02 UTC
Great, thanks for the report.  Here and on the kernel.org bug, this seems to be the case for most, if not all, people.  Looks like this is an i915 bug.

Comment 14 Mihai Harpau 2010-07-09 08:57:34 UTC
Last kernel update for F13 (kernel-2.6.33.6-147.fc13) does not fix this bug even that there was some hope - see this changelog from kernel:
 * Fri Jul 02 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied> 2.6.33.5-140
 - attempt to fix hibernate on Intel GPUs (kernel.org #13811)

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