After upgrading to latest git (2.6.32-git3) from 2.6.32-rc0, I hit this bug: [ 166.398579] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1184! [ 166.398586] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 166.398594] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map [ 166.398600] CPU 0 [ 166.398604] Modules linked in: ipv6 snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss af_packet cn k8temp loop i2o_scsi i2o_proc i2o_config i2o_bus i2o_core hwmon_vid hangcheck_timer video backlight output fan powernow_k8 freq_table cpuid msr fbcon font bitblit fbcon_rotate fbcon_cw fbcon_ud fbcon_ccw softcursor snd_hda_codec_analog arc4 ecb b43 radeon rng_core ttm snd_hda_intel mac80211 drm_kms_helper snd_hda_codec drm cfg80211 snd_hwdep snd_pcm rfkill snd_timer fb snd led_class mousedev firmware_class usblp hid_logitech soundcore firewire_ohci i2c_algo_bit psmouse snd_page_alloc ssb cfbcopyarea firewire_core thermal processor sky2 rtc_cmos asus_atk0110 i2c_piix4 amd64_edac_mod rtc_core thermal_sys crc_itu_t cfbimgblt edac_core mmc_core i2c_core cfbfillrect atkbd pcspkr evdev rtc_lib button hwmon unix fuse xfs exportfs reiserfs ext3 jbd scsi_wait_scan usb_storage sr_mod cdrom sg pata_atiixp [ 166.398763] Pid: 3159, comm: flush-8:0 Not tainted 2.6.32-rc2 #1 System Product Name [ 166.398770] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8112e3b3>] [<ffffffff8112e3b3>] ext4_num_dirty_pages+0x10f/0x22d [ 166.398791] RSP: 0018:ffff88022ce8fa10 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 166.398797] RAX: 000000000000000e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 008000000002007d [ 166.398803] RDX: ffffea00076c2180 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffea00076c2180 [ 166.398809] RBP: ffff88022ce8fb20 R08: ffff880229bbc0b0 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 166.398815] R10: 00000000538a08bb R11: 00000000538a08bb R12: 0000000000000000 [ 166.398822] R13: ffff88022ce8fa60 R14: ffff880229b601b8 R15: ffff88022ce8fa58 [ 166.398829] FS: 00007fe70c9026f0(0000) GS:ffff880028200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 166.398836] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 166.398841] CR2: 0000000001abbfe0 CR3: 000000020bdab000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 166.398848] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 166.398854] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 166.398861] Process flush-8:0 (pid: 3159, threadinfo ffff88022ce8e000, task ffff88022af18620) [ 166.398866] Stack: [ 166.398870] 0000000000000246 0000000000000246 ffffea00076c2180 ffffffff0000000e [ 166.398879] <0> 0000000000008000 ffff88022ce8fa70 ffff88022ce8fa70 0000000000000000 [ 166.398889] <0> ffff880200000001 0000000000000014 000000000000000e 0000000000000000 [ 166.398900] Call Trace: [ 166.398913] [<ffffffff8112fe3a>] ext4_da_writepages+0x144/0x4b0 [ 166.398926] [<ffffffff8109405b>] do_writepages+0x2d/0x4a [ 166.398937] [<ffffffff810e2b49>] writeback_single_inode+0xf9/0x306 [ 166.398947] [<ffffffff810e37bf>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x452/0x543 [ 166.398957] [<ffffffff810e39e9>] wb_writeback+0x139/0x1ce [ 166.398968] [<ffffffff810525e7>] ? del_timer_sync+0x23/0x48 [ 166.398978] [<ffffffff810e3cb6>] wb_do_writeback+0x146/0x170 [ 166.398989] [<ffffffff810e3d29>] bdi_writeback_task+0x49/0xd0 [ 166.398998] [<ffffffff810a0e86>] ? bdi_start_fn+0x0/0xf2 [ 166.399006] [<ffffffff810a0f01>] bdi_start_fn+0x7b/0xf2 [ 166.399015] [<ffffffff8104b436>] ? do_exit+0x640/0x64f [ 166.399023] [<ffffffff810a0e86>] ? bdi_start_fn+0x0/0xf2 [ 166.399033] [<ffffffff8105eb90>] kthread+0x89/0x91 [ 166.399041] [<ffffffff8100c1da>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [ 166.399051] [<ffffffff8105eb07>] ? kthread+0x0/0x91 [ 166.399058] [<ffffffff8100c1d0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 [ 166.399062] Code: c1 10 74 0e f6 c5 20 75 09 48 8b 72 20 4c 39 e6 74 14 48 89 d7 e8 f7 e2 f5 ff 48 8b 9d 28 ff ff ff 4c 89 e6 eb 70 80 e5 08 75 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 48 8b 7a 10 48 89 f9 4c 8b 01 41 f7 c0 00 02 00 00 [ 166.399128] RIP [<ffffffff8112e3b3>] ext4_num_dirty_pages+0x10f/0x22d [ 166.399139] RSP <ffff88022ce8fa10> The function referenced by the BUG was introduced with commit 55138e0bc29c0751e2152df9ad35deea542f29b3 (ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks). When booting in text-only mode the BUG doesn't show up. The only way I found for reproducing it was starting KDE. Right after the bug shows up KDE apps become unusable, and issuing "reboot" has no effect, I can only hard-reset. This also led to data corruption on both my root and home partitions (had to reinstall some packages and will probably reinstall whole system); e2fsck truncated a lot of files to zero lenght (I was actually lucky to have a copy of the BUG written to disk). I can bisect (tomorrow) or provide more info if needed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14300 ***