From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 16312] WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:1127 __mark_inode_dirty Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:30:50 GMT Message-ID: <201007231530.o6NFUog0031122@demeter.kernel.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from demeter.kernel.org ([140.211.167.39]:34858 "EHLO demeter.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760628Ab0GWPaw (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:30:52 -0400 Received: from demeter.kernel.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6NFUoCb031126 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:30:51 GMT In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16312 Jan Kara changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |axboe@kernel.dk, | |jack@suse.cz --- Comment #3 from Jan Kara 2010-07-23 15:30:50 --- I was looking into this. A trivial reproducer is: mknod devzero c 1 5; touch devzero Essentially, the problem is that any device inode can get dirty because of time stamp update or similar reason but some BDIs (in this case the one backing /dev/zero) do not expect dirty inodes. Hmm, I now have to think how to fix this... It would be more natural if device inodes were queued for metadata updates in the queues of "parent" filesystem. But this brings problem that device inode would need to be in two queues - one for metadata update to the parent filesystem and one for data writeout to the device (this is not exactly the case of /dev/zero but if you have a device node for /dev/sdb on /dev/sda, then this is exactly what we would need). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug.