On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:44:59PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:46:39PM -0700, Mingming wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:09 +0000, Holger Kiehl wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Mingming wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 21:12 +0000, Holger Kiehl wrote: > > > >> Yes, with this patch applied on top of latest patch queue I no longer > > > >> get truncated files, after running a short test. Tomorrow I will do some > > > >> more thorough testing and use the patch you have send to me in a separate > > > >> mail. The above patch did not apply but it was easy to apply by hand. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for quick response and test. I have updated the patch queue with > > > > above patch merged. Please let me know if you still see apply issue and > > > > file size update issue with current patch queue. > > > > > > > Thanks, it applies without any problems. However I still hit an oops. What > > > I find strange is that I got the oops just as the benchmark is done and > > > all process where shutting down. The same behaviour I reported here: > > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0806.2/2113.html > > > Only this time I got just one oops. This is on x86_64 system (4 Opteron CPU's > > > and SW Raid 1+0). I have not seen this on my home system x86 (1 Dual Core > > > and HW Raid). Anyway, here the dmesg output: > > > > > > kjournald2 starting. Commit interval 15 seconds > > > EXT4 FS on md7, internal journal > > > EXT4-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > > > EXT4-fs: file extents enabled > > > EXT4-fs: mballoc enabled > > > JBD: barrier-based sync failed on md7 - disabling barriers > > > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > > kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1667! > > > > Did not get a chance to look more closely today, but it's point to this > > code in ext4_da_writepage() > > > > page_bufs = page_buffers(page); > > > > and appearently it's BUG_ON at > > BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)); in page_buffers(). > > > > > > Ok so we are doing the journal_commit and meanwhile shrink_page_list > dropped the buffer. I guess what is happening is > > > journal_submit_inode_data_buffers > generic_writepages > write_cache_pages > pagevec_lookup_tag(..PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,..) > foreach(page) > shrink_page_list > lock_page > ext4_releasepage > try_to_free_buffers > drop_buffers > cancel_dirty_page > unlock_page > lock_page() > BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)); > > > How about the below ? or update write_cache_pages not to call writepage if the page is not dirty ? diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index ded57d5..0a13702 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -929,6 +929,11 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, continue; } + if (!PageDirty(page)) { + unlock_page(page); + continue; + } + ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data); if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE)) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
