From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: XFS WARN_ON in xfs_vm_writepage
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:19:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140613141925.GA24199@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140613062645.GZ9508@dastard>
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 04:26:45PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > 970 if (WARN_ON_ONCE((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) ==
> > 971 PF_MEMALLOC))
>
> What were you running at the time? The XFS warning is there to
> indicate that memory reclaim is doing something it shouldn't (i.e.
> dirty page writeback from direct reclaim), so this is one for the mm
> folk to work out...
Trinity had driven the machine deeply into swap, and the oom killer was
kicking in pretty often. Then this happened.
Dave
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[not found] <20140613051631.GA9394@redhat.com>
2014-06-13 6:26 ` XFS WARN_ON in xfs_vm_writepage Dave Chinner
2014-06-13 14:19 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2014-06-19 2:03 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-23 20:27 ` Dave Jones
2014-06-24 1:02 ` Dave Chinner
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