free_list / free_size messages

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Mar 15 16:46:41 EST 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 12:12 -0600, Brian T wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since moving from JFFS2 2.1 to 2.2, I have noticed klog messages I didn't
> see before.  It only seems to happen after a fresh flash when writing data
> to the romfs.  sometimes I get a few messages, but this time I only got the
> one:
> 
> Mar 10 12:07:25 klogd: Eep. Block 0x00120000 taken from free_list had
> free_size of 0x00000038!!

I've no idea what could cause this; it's a sanity check which I don't
recall ever happening to anyone else. Can you run with a serial console
and CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DEBUG=1, and with 'debug' on the kernel command
line. Log _everything_ it says, and hopefully it'll give us a clue.

-- 
dwmw2





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