Re: [powerpc][5.13.0-next-20210701] Kernel crash while running ltp(chdir01) tests

Sachin Sant
2021-07-05T11:27:51Z

> On 04-Jul-2021, at 7:34 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 12:55:09PM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
>> Yeah, it sounds good to me. Do you want me to send the fix patch, or you
>> modify your commit 8f9e16badb8fd in another email directly?
>
> I've gone ahead and made the changes; what do you think?
>
> I like how it also removes 40 lines of code. :-)
>
> - Ted
>
> From ef3130d1b0b8ca769252d6a722a2e59a00141383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 18:05:03 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] ext4: inline jbd2_journal_[un]register_shrinker()
>
> The function jbd2_journal_unregister_shrinker() was getting called
> twice when the file system was getting unmounted. On Power and ARM
> platforms this was causing kernel crash when unmounting the file
> system, when a percpu_counter was destroyed twice.
>
> Fix this by removing jbd2_journal_[un]register_shrinker() functions,
> and inlining the shrinker setup and teardown into
> journal_init_common() and jbd2_journal_destroy(). This means that
> ext4 and ocfs2 now no longer need to know about registering and
> unregistering jbd2's shrinker.
>
> Also, while we're at it, rename the percpu counter from
> j_jh_shrink_count to j_checkpoint_jh_count, since this makes it
> clearer what this counter is intended to track.
>
> Fixes: 4ba3fcdde7e3 ("jbd2,ext4: add a shrinker to release checkpointed buffers")
> Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> ---

This patch fixes the reported problem. Test ran to completion
without any crash.

Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

-Sachin