Revision e6da7c9fed111ba1243297ee6eda8e24ae11c384 authored by Eric Sandeen on 23 May 2009, 19:30:12 UTC, committed by Felix Blyakher on 02 June 2009, 03:59:38 UTC
In the case where growing a filesystem would leave the last AG
too small, the fixup code has an overflow in the calculation
of the new size with one fewer ag, because "nagcount" is a 32
bit number. If the new filesystem has > 2^32 blocks in it
this causes a problem resulting in an EINVAL return from growfs:
# xfs_io -f -c "truncate 19998630180864" fsfile
# mkfs.xfs -f -bsize=4096 -dagsize=76288719b,size=3905982455b fsfile
# mount -o loop fsfile /mnt
# xfs_growfs /mnt
meta-data=/dev/loop0 isize=256 agcount=52,
agsize=76288719 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2
data = bsize=4096 blocks=3905982455, imaxpct=5
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0
log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
xfs_growfs: XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA xfsctl failed: Invalid argument
Reported-by: richard.ems@cape-horn-eng.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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memory.txt
There are several classic problems related to memory on Linux
systems.
1) There are some buggy motherboards which cannot properly
deal with the memory above 16MB. Consider exchanging
your motherboard.
2) You cannot do DMA on the ISA bus to addresses above
16M. Most device drivers under Linux allow the use
of bounce buffers which work around this problem. Drivers
that don't use bounce buffers will be unstable with
more than 16M installed. Drivers that use bounce buffers
will be OK, but may have slightly higher overhead.
3) There are some motherboards that will not cache above
a certain quantity of memory. If you have one of these
motherboards, your system will be SLOWER, not faster
as you add more memory. Consider exchanging your
motherboard.
All of these problems can be addressed with the "mem=XXXM" boot option
(where XXX is the size of RAM to use in megabytes).
It can also tell Linux to use less memory than is actually installed.
If you use "mem=" on a machine with PCI, consider using "memmap=" to avoid
physical address space collisions.
See the documentation of your boot loader (LILO, loadlin, etc.) about
how to pass options to the kernel.
There are other memory problems which Linux cannot deal with. Random
corruption of memory is usually a sign of serious hardware trouble.
Try:
* Reducing memory settings in the BIOS to the most conservative
timings.
* Adding a cooling fan.
* Not overclocking your CPU.
* Having the memory tested in a memory tester or exchanged
with the vendor. Consider testing it with memtest86 yourself.
* Exchanging your CPU, cache, or motherboard for one that works.
* Disabling the cache from the BIOS.
* Try passing the "mem=4M" option to the kernel to limit
Linux to using a very small amount of memory. Use "memmap="-option
together with "mem=" on systems with PCI to avoid physical address
space collisions.
Other tricks:
* Try passing the "no-387" option to the kernel to ignore
a buggy FPU.
* Try passing the "no-hlt" option to disable the potentially
buggy HLT instruction in your CPU.
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