Forgot to mention another related problem we had recently.
We have seen LTP test suite failing in 'sendfile09' test case on 2023-02-15:
[ 5157.233192] CPU: 0 PID: 2435571 Comm: sendfile09 Tainted: G OE K N 6.2.0-20230214.rc8.git112.3ebb0ac55efa.300.fc37.s390x+next #1
[ 5157.233197] Hardware name: IBM 8561 T01 701 (z/VM 7.3.0)
[ 5157.233199] Krnl PSW : 0704d00180000000 0000000000000002 (0x2)
[ 5157.233207] R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:1 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
[ 5157.233210] Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 00000000893d1800 00000372088bd040
[ 5157.233213] 00000372088bd040 000000018c836000 0000000000000000 0000038000a4bb80
[ 5157.233215] 00000372088bd040 0000000000000000 00000000893d1800 00000372088bd040
[ 5157.233218] 0000000081182100 00000000893d1800 000000001f691596 0000038000a4b9b0
[ 5157.233222] Krnl Code:#0000000000000000: 0000 illegal
>0000000000000002: 0000 illegal
0000000000000004: 0000 illegal
0000000000000006: 0000 illegal
0000000000000008: 0000 illegal
000000000000000a: 0000 illegal
000000000000000c: 0000 illegal
000000000000000e: 0000 illegal
[ 5157.233281] Call Trace:
[ 5157.233284] [<0000000000000002>] 0x2
[ 5157.233288] [<000000001f694e26>] filemap_get_pages+0x276/0x3b0
[ 5157.233296] [<000000001f7c7256>] generic_file_buffered_splice_read.constprop.0+0xd6/0x370
[ 5157.233301] [<000000001f7c6aa0>] do_splice_to+0x98/0xc8
[ 5157.233304] [<000000001f7c6eee>] splice_direct_to_actor+0xb6/0x270
[ 5157.233306] [<000000001f7c714a>] do_splice_direct+0xa2/0xd8
[ 5157.233309] [<000000001f77c79c>] do_sendfile+0x39c/0x4e8
[ 5157.233314] [<000000001f77ca00>] __do_sys_sendfile64+0x68/0xc0
[ 5157.233317] [<00000000200b4bb4>] __do_syscall+0x1d4/0x200
[ 5157.233322] [<00000000200c42f2>] system_call+0x82/0xb0
[ 5157.233328] Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[ 5157.233329] [<000000001f691594>] filemap_read_folio+0x3c/0xd0
[ 5157.233338] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops
But it was apparently fixed on the next day.
Regards
Alex
