free_list / free_size messages

Brad Campbell brad at wasp.net.au
Mon Mar 15 23:46:43 EST 2004


David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 12:12 -0600, Brian T wrote:
>>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.
> 

I have seen this a bit on my iPAQ 3800 with a familiar 2.4.19-hh36 kernel. I just guessed it was 
informative and I tend to ignore it. Should I try and reproduce it for debugging?

Regards,
Brad



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