I''ve just started playing with Btrfs, and I''m getting a log full of kernel warnings that look something like this: Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: WARNING: at fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:815 clean_tree_block+0x9d/0xbb [btrfs]() Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: Hardware name: System Product Name Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: Modules linked in: btrfs zlib_deflate tcp_diag inet_diag kqemu cpufreq_userspace ipv6 nfsd nfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc af_packet bridge stp llc xfs exportfs it87 hwmon_vid powernow_k8 sbp2 ieee1394 ide_generic ide_gd_mod ide_cd_mod pcspkr evdev k8temp hwmon i2c_viapro i2c_core button dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_snapshot dm_mod raid1 md_mod usbhid usb_storage libusual sg sr_mod cdrom via82cxxx floppy via_rhine mii ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore pata_via ide_pci_generic ide_core sd_mod thermal processor fan unix Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: Pid: 24129, comm: btrfs-endio-wri Tainted: G W 2.6.29-rc4 #1 Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: Call Trace: Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff80228d7d>] warn_slowpath+0xd8/0x111 Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff80251d9e>] __alloc_pages_internal+0xd2/0x3ec Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff8024d55d>] add_to_page_cache_locked+0x52/0x9e Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff8024d5e9>] add_to_page_cache_lru+0x40/0x58 Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff8024dbd0>] find_or_create_page+0x62/0x88 Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff80313244>] rb_insert_color+0xba/0xe2 Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03f992a>] alloc_extent_buffer+0x268/0x2ec [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03e1b18>] clean_tree_block+0x9d/0xbb [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03d5eaf>] btrfs_init_new_buffer+0x99/0xf3 [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03d849e>] btrfs_alloc_free_block+0x83/0x8c [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03cda8b>] split_leaf+0x159/0xa0a [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03f0de5>] btrfs_item_offset+0xb3/0xbe [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03c96bc>] leaf_space_used+0xb5/0xe8 [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03d0ebd>] btrfs_search_slot+0x917/0x99b [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03ef06a>] btrfs_drop_extents+0xa75/0xab3 [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03d14ee>] btrfs_insert_empty_items+0x7f/0x49d [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03e6f0f>] insert_reserved_file_extent+0xd9/0x230 [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03fa44f>] set_extent_bit+0x220/0x277 [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03fadce>] lock_extent+0x46/0x95 [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03e885c>] btrfs_finish_ordered_io+0xfe/0x198 [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa03fb4ff>] end_bio_extent_writepage+0xa9/0x1b1 [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa04023e4>] worker_loop+0x5f/0x15e [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa0402385>] worker_loop+0x0/0x15e [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffffa0402385>] worker_loop+0x0/0x15e [btrfs] Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff80238269>] kthread+0x47/0x73 Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff8020c03a>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff80238222>] kthread+0x0/0x73 Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: [<ffffffff8020c030>] child_rip+0x0/0x20 Feb 16 09:02:17 vlad kernel: ---[ end trace a315082d5647b979 ]--- They''re not all identical -- there are bits in the middle of the trace that change. They tend to arrive in groups of 4-8 warnings very close together, separated by 15-20 seconds without a warning. The workload was encoding a video from another filesystem, onto the Btrfs filesystem. It''s quiet when there''s nothing accessing the filesystem. The filesystem is 19GiB in size, residing on LVM-on-RAID-1 on a 2.6.29-rc4 kernel. It was created on 2.6.29-rc3, 20GiB in size using btrfs tools 0.18-ge3b0f66, and shrunk online to its current size. I haven''t found any similar reports on the mailing list, which means either I''ve got something unusual, or something so blindingly expected that nobody''s bothered to mention it. I suspect the latter, but I''m reporting it in case it''s the former. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk == PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- "You got very nice eyes, Deedee. Never noticed them --- before. They real?"