On Tue 01-12-15 15:58:52, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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>
OK, looks good to me. There is still a tiny race window where the warning
could trigger but I don't think it's worth caring about. You can add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Honza
> ---
> 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);
>
> /*
>
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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