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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-next <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	chandan <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-next][XFS][trinity] WARNING: CPU: 32 PID: 31369 at fs/iomap.c:993
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:51:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <955c9c41-1941-5cf4-751c-14a3efa9d0ce@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170918154328.GA32076@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On 09/18/2017 09:43 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 05:39:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:28:55AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> If it's expected, why don't we kill the WARN_ON_ONCE()? I get it all
>>> the time running xfstests as well.
>>
>> Dave insisted on it to decourage users/applications from mixing
>> mmap and direct I/O.
>>
>> In many ways a tracepoint might be the better way to diagnose these.
> 
> sysctl suppressing those two, perhaps?

I'd rather just make it a trace point, but don't care too much.

The code doesn't even have a comment as to why that WARN_ON() is
there or expected. Seems pretty sloppy to me, not a great way
to "discourage" users to mix mmap/dio.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-18 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-18 14:56 [linux-next][XFS][trinity] WARNING: CPU: 32 PID: 31369 at fs/iomap.c:993 Abdul Haleem
2017-09-18 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 15:28   ` Jens Axboe
2017-09-18 15:39     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 15:43       ` Al Viro
2017-09-18 15:51         ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2017-09-18 21:53           ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-18 21:31     ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-18 22:00       ` Eric Sandeen
2017-09-18 22:04         ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-09-18 22:05         ` Dave Chinner

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