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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: Fix WARN_ON(delalloc) in xfs_vm_releasepage()
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:18:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130322231857.GR22182@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363267854-25602-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:30:54PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> When a dirty page is truncated from a file but reclaim gets to it before
> truncate_inode_pages(), we hit WARN_ON(delalloc) in
> xfs_vm_releasepage(). This is because reclaim tries to write the page,
> xfs_vm_writepage() just bails out (leaving page clean) and thus reclaim
> thinks it can continue and calls xfs_vm_releasepage() on page with dirty
> buffers.
> 
> Fix the issue by redirtying the page in xfs_vm_writepage(). This makes
> reclaim stop reclaiming the page and also logically it keeps page in a
> more consistent state where page with dirty buffers has PageDirty set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Applied.

Regards,
	Ben

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-22 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14 13:30 [PATCH] xfs: Fix WARN_ON(delalloc) in xfs_vm_releasepage() Jan Kara
2013-03-14 20:21 ` Carlos Maiolino
2013-03-15 20:52 ` Ben Myers
2013-03-18 16:05   ` Jan Kara
2013-03-19  3:47     ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-19 15:42       ` Jan Kara
2013-03-21  1:37   ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-22 21:12     ` Ben Myers
2013-03-16  7:35 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-22 23:18 ` Ben Myers [this message]

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