Neither the filemap_fault() nor the xfs dax fault path is updating time. This call leads to the following WARN() when the block device has been torn down: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2133 at fs/fs-writeback.c:2065 __mark_inode_dirty+0x261/0x350() bdi-block not registered [..] Call Trace: [<ffffffff81459f62>] dump_stack+0x44/0x62 [<ffffffff810a2052>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0 [<ffffffff810a20ec>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80 [<ffffffff812831a1>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x261/0x350 [<ffffffff8126d109>] generic_update_time+0x79/0xd0 [<ffffffff8126d28d>] file_update_time+0xbd/0x110 [<ffffffff812e4bc8>] ext4_dax_fault+0x68/0x110 [<ffffffff811f816e>] __do_fault+0x4e/0xf0 [<ffffffff811fc2a7>] handle_mm_fault+0x5e7/0x1b50 [<ffffffff811fbd11>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x51/0x1b50 [<ffffffff810689c1>] __do_page_fault+0x191/0x3f0 [<ffffffff81068cef>] trace_do_page_fault+0x4f/0x120 [<ffffffff8106314a>] do_async_page_fault+0x1a/0xa0 [<ffffffff81902678>] async_page_fault+0x28/0x30 Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/file.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c index 113837e7ba98..76854dd6dd7d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/file.c +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c @@ -214,7 +214,6 @@ static int ext4_dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf) if (write) { sb_start_pagefault(sb); - file_update_time(vma->vm_file); handle = ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, EXT4_HT_WRITE_PAGE, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb)); } @@ -245,7 +244,6 @@ static int ext4_dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, if (write) { sb_start_pagefault(sb); - file_update_time(vma->vm_file); handle = ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, EXT4_HT_WRITE_PAGE, ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode, PMD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE)); -- 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