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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
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH -V2 4/4] ext4: Add WARN_ON on unmapped dirty buffer_heads in writepage
Date: Thu,  4 Jun 2009 11:40:05 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244095805-17015-4-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244095805-17015-3-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 2219daa..9bba474 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2488,6 +2488,10 @@ 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
@@ -2602,6 +2606,14 @@ 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)) {
 		/*
-- 
1.6.3.1.244.gf9275


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-04  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-04  6:10 [PATCH -V2 1/4] ext4: Check for only delay or unwritten buffer_heads Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-06-04  6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 2/4] ext4: Add generic writepage callback Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-06-04  6:10   ` [PATCH -V2 3/4] ext4: Move some static functions around Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-06-04  6:10     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2009-06-04 13:50       ` [PATCH -V2 4/4] ext4: Add WARN_ON on unmapped dirty buffer_heads in writepage Theodore Tso
2009-06-04 13:47     ` [PATCH -V2 3/4] ext4: Move some static functions around Theodore Tso
2009-06-04 12:05   ` [PATCH -V2 2/4] ext4: Add generic writepage callback Theodore Tso
2009-06-04 13:20   ` Theodore Tso
2009-06-04 13:16 ` [PATCH -V2 1/4] ext4: Check for only delay or unwritten buffer_heads Theodore Tso

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