[Bug 201631] WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 29593 at fs/ext4/inode.c:3927 .ext4_set_page_dirty+0x70/0xb0

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--- Comment #50 from Aneesh Kumar KV (aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com) ---
(In reply to Jan Kara from comment #47)
> OK, so it seems to be more and more clear that PPC indeed has some race in
> page table updates. What I can see in the latest report is:
> 
> Clean page (index 92, ino 681741, i_size 828368, flags 7fff0000002016,
> mapcount 1) with dirty PTE (pte_val c0000005f7fae186) on unmap! Vma flags
> fb, pgoff 0, file ino 681741
> ...
> page 92: b_state 21, b_blocknr 2801084, b_mapped 1452389112002, b_mapped2 0,
> b_cleaned 1452396217779, now 1452400395514
> 
> So "Vma flags fb" shows its a normal shared, writeable file mapping. Page is
> somewhere in the middle of the file (file size is 828368, page is at offset
> 376832). The page has been writeably mapped 11ms ago (you are using ext2
> filesystem which was confusing my previous debug attempts so only this one
> has shown proper times) and written back 4ms ago (which should have
> writeprotected the pte) but we still have writeable pte now on which the
> assertion hits. So either page_mkclean() failed to clear the PTE or someone
> created new writeable PTE without telling ext4.
> 
> I'll attach a new version of debug patch to distinguish these two cases.

The fact that we did try to write out the page at (bh_cleaned
1452396217779)implies we should have cleared the _PAGE_WRITE bit right
(clear_page_dirty_for_io())? So we should either find that bit cleared in pte
(if we missed a related tlb flush and tlb still has that pte with _PAGE_WRITE)
or we find that set. In this case, we find _PAGE_WRITE set in the pte during
zap. Does that imply we did call finish_fault()? which should have ideally
resulted in we calling page_mkwrite().

I am still not clear what could be a possible race that can result in this?

-aneesh

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