Inodes using DAX should only ever have exceptional entries in their page caches. Make this clear by warning if the iteration in dax_layout_busy_page() ever sees a non-exceptional entry, and by adding a comment for the pagevec_release() call which only deals with struct page pointers. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dax.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c index 641192808bb6..4a5e31f8a2d4 100644 --- a/fs/dax.c +++ b/fs/dax.c @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ struct page *dax_layout_busy_page(struct address_space *mapping) if (index >= end) break; - if (!radix_tree_exceptional_entry(pvec_ent)) + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!radix_tree_exceptional_entry(pvec_ent))) continue; xa_lock_irq(&mapping->i_pages); @@ -578,6 +578,13 @@ struct page *dax_layout_busy_page(struct address_space *mapping) if (page) break; } + + /* + * We don't expect normal struct page entries to exist in our + * tree, but we keep these pagevec calls so that this code is + * consistent with the common pattern for handling pagevecs + * throughout the kernel. + */ pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec); pagevec_release(&pvec); index++; -- 2.14.4
