This warning was added as a debugging aid way back in commit 500b067c5e6c "writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty" when we were switching over to per-bdi writeback. Once the block device has been torn down it's no longer useful to complain about unregistered bdi's. Clear the writeback capability under the the wb->list_lock(), so that __mark_inode_dirty has no opportunity to race bdi_unregister() to this WARN() condition. Alternatively we could just delete the warning... Found this while testing block device remove from underneath an active fs triggering traces like: WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 2129 at fs/fs-writeback.c:2065 __mark_inode_dirty+0x261/0x350() bdi-block not registered [..] Call Trace: [<ffffffff81459f02>] dump_stack+0x44/0x62 [<ffffffff810a1f32>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0 [<ffffffff810a1fcc>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80 [<ffffffff812830b1>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x261/0x350 [<ffffffff8126d019>] generic_update_time+0x79/0xd0 [<ffffffff8126d19d>] file_update_time+0xbd/0x110 [<ffffffff812e4ab8>] ext4_dax_fault+0x68/0x110 [<ffffffff811f7f3e>] __do_fault+0x4e/0xf0 [<ffffffff811fc077>] handle_mm_fault+0x5e7/0x1b50 [<ffffffff811fbae1>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x51/0x1b50 [<ffffffff81068981>] __do_page_fault+0x191/0x3f0 [<ffffffff81068caf>] trace_do_page_fault+0x4f/0x120 [<ffffffff810630fa>] do_async_page_fault+0x1a/0xa0 [<ffffffff819023f8>] async_page_fault+0x28/0x30 Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/backing-dev.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 8ed2ffd963c5..24e61acf74a7 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -343,10 +343,17 @@ static void wb_shutdown(struct bdi_writeback *wb) { /* Make sure nobody queues further work */ spin_lock_bh(&wb->work_lock); + if (!test_and_clear_bit(WB_registered, &wb->state)) { spin_unlock_bh(&wb->work_lock); return; } + + /* tell __mark_inode_dirty that writeback is no longer possible */ + spin_lock(&wb->list_lock); + wb->bdi->capabilities |= BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK; + spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); + spin_unlock_bh(&wb->work_lock); /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html