Description of problem: An ext3 filesystem reported errors and went read-only. Jun 10 18:50:56 guardianwall kernel: do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer Jun 10 18:50:56 guardianwall kernel: ext3_reserve_inode_write: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext3_journal_get_write_access Jun 10 18:50:56 guardianwall kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-0) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Out of memory Jun 10 18:50:56 guardianwall kernel: Aborting journal on device dm-0. Jun 10 18:50:56 guardianwall kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-0) in ext3_dirty_inode: Outof memory Jun 10 18:50:56 guardianwall kernel: ext3_abort called. Jun 10 18:50:56 guardianwall kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Jun 10 18:50:56 guardianwall kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only Jun 10 18:50:56 guardianwall kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL How reproducible: Only seen once so far. Steps to Reproduce: Unknown Additional info: This is the same bug as this RHEL5 BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497257
Created attachment 424989 [details] Patch to honour GFP_NOFAIL flag in __alloc_pages()
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Committed in 89.43.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/
Confirmed patch in 2.6.9-89.43.EL. Setting SanityOnly.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0263.html