From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: generic/224 triggers infinite "page discard on page xxx" on 512 block size XFS with 4.8-rc1 kernel
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 09:04:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160813230426.GC16044@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160813073839.GY27776@eguan.usersys.redhat.com>
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 03:38:39PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've hit generic/224 flooding dmesg on 512 block size XFS, 4.8-rc1
> kernel, with the following message:
>
> ...
> [ 98.146091] XFS (sda6): page discard on page ffffea0002f7e780, inode 0xe3a87, offset 1085214720.
> [ 98.147431] XFS (sda6): page discard on page ffffea00023c3800, inode 0xe3a87, offset 1085218816.
> [ 98.148743] XFS (sda6): page discard on page ffffea0002247700, inode 0xe3a87, offset 1085222912.
> [ 98.150136] XFS (sda6): page discard on page ffffea0002f8d000, inode 0xe3a87, offset 1085227008.
> [ 98.151496] XFS (sda6): page discard on page ffffea0002c58840, inode 0xe3a87, offset 1085231104.
> [ 98.152794] XFS (sda6): page discard on page ffffea0002e65340, inode 0xe3a87, offset 1085235200.
> ...
>
> The inode number is always the same, only the page address and offset
> are changing.
>
> This is triggered by this dd command in generic/224:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile.$i bs=4k conv=notrunc
>
> and it won't return until you kill it.
It's not infinite. It just does it for every page and 1000 processes
all trying to write 256,000 pages is a lot.... We have a fix
pending for it and I'm aiming to get it to Linus later this week.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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