Re: [2.4] page->buffers vanished in journal_try_to_free_buffers()

[Andrew Morton]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Maybe adding this (untested) to v2.4 mainline helps? Comments?

It would be helpful.

>  --- transaction.c.orig	2004-06-19 15:21:32.861148560 -0300
>  +++ transaction.c	2004-06-19 15:23:18.214132472 -0300
>  @@ -1694,6 +1694,24 @@
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
>  +void debug_page(struct page *p)
>  +{
>  +	struct buffer_head *bh;
>  +
>  +	bh = p->buffers;
>  +
>  +	printk(KERN_ERR "%s: page index:%u count:%d flags:%x\n", __FUNCTION__,
>  +		,p->index , atomic_read(&p->count), p->flags);

                ^

>  +
>  +	do {
>  +		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: bh b_next:%p blocknr:%u b_list:%u state:%x\n",
>  +			__FUNCTION__, bh->b_next, bh->b_blocknr, bh->b_list,
>  +				bh->b_state);
>  +		bh = bh->b_this_page;
>  +	} while (bh);
>  +}
>  +

you'll want to make this a while (!bh) {} loop, to handle the
page->buffers==NULL case.

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