Hi Willy, Piotr reports the following crash can be triggered on latest mainline: EXT4-fs (pmem5): recovery complete EXT4-fs (pmem5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: dax ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/pgtable-generic.c:127! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 28 PID: 1193 Comm: a.out Tainted: G W OE 4.19.0-rc5+ #2907 [..] RIP: 0010:pmdp_huge_clear_flush+0x1e/0x80 [..] Call Trace: dax_writeback_mapping_range+0x473/0x8a0 ? print_shortest_lock_dependencies+0x40/0x40 ? jbd2_journal_stop+0xef/0x470 ? ext4_fill_super+0x3071/0x3110 ? __lock_is_held+0x4f/0x90 ? __lock_is_held+0x4f/0x90 ext4_dax_writepages+0xed/0x2f0 do_writepages+0x41/0xe0 __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xbe/0xf0 file_write_and_wait_range+0x4c/0xa0 ext4_sync_file+0xa6/0x4f0 I bisected this regression to commit c1901cd33cf4 "page cache: Convert find_get_entries_tag to XArray". I suspect another case of pte vs pmd confusion. Below is the small reproducer from Piotr, it triggers in a qemu environment with emulated pmem, but only with ext4 that I can see, but I did not dig too deep. Let me know if anything jumps out to you. I'll otherwise take a deeper look in the coming days. #include <sys/mman.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <string.h> #include <assert.h> #define MB (1ULL << 20) int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int ret; int fd; off_t size = 2 * MB; char *path = argv[1]; fd = open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0666); assert(fd > 0); ret = ftruncate(fd, size); assert(ret == 0); char *addr = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); assert(addr != MAP_FAILED); memset((char*)addr, '0', 1); ret = msync(addr + 4096, 1, MS_SYNC); assert(ret == 0); close(fd); return 0; }