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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: cmm@us.ibm.com, tytso@mit.edu, sandeen@redhat.com, jack@suse.cz
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Add WARN_ON on unmapped dirty buffer_heads in writepage
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:57:44 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243499264-29629-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)

Now we have block_lock_hole_extend clearing the dirty flag of
buffer_heads outside i_size we should not find buffer_heads
which are unmapped and dirty in writepage. If we find do a WARN_ON.
We can still continue because block_write_full page look at the mapped
flag only.

Following sequence of events would result in the above condition.
1) truncate(f, 1024)
2) mmap(f, 0, 4096)
3) a[0] = 'a'
4) truncate(f, 4096)
5) writepage(...)

After step 3 we would have unmapped buffer_heads outside i_size.
After step 4 we would have unmapped buffer_heads within i_size.

Now that truncate is calling block_lock_hole_extend which in turn
is clearing the dirty flag, we can safely assume that we won't
find unmapped dirty buffer_heads in write page. If we did find one
we should find out why.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index f6f2202..ca26bdd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2509,6 +2509,11 @@ static int __ext4_journalled_writepage(struct page *page,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int ext4_bh_unmapped_and_dirty(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	return (!buffer_mapped(bh)) && buffer_dirty(bh);
+}
+
 /*
  * Note that we don't need to start a transaction unless we're journaling data
  * because we should have holes filled from ext4_page_mkwrite(). We even don't
@@ -2622,6 +2627,14 @@ static int ext4_writepage(struct page *page,
 		/* now mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate */
 		block_commit_write(page, 0, len);
 	}
+	/*
+	 * There should not be any unmapped and dirty
+	 * buffer_heads at this point. Look at block_lock_hole_extend
+	 * for more info. If we find one print more info
+	 */
+	 WARN(walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_bufs, 0, len, NULL,
+				 ext4_bh_unmapped_and_dirty),
+		 "Unmapped dirty buffer_heads found in %s\n", __func__);
 
 	if (PageChecked(page) && ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
 		/*
-- 
1.6.3.1.145.gb74d77


             reply	other threads:[~2009-05-28  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-28  8:27 Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2009-05-28 10:06 ` [PATCH] ext4: Add WARN_ON on unmapped dirty buffer_heads in writepage Jan Kara

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