On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:49:49PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 06/15/2010 12:26 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 05:45:16PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >[21877.951204] [<ffffffffa009bde4>] xfs_vm_writepage+0x84/0x160 [xfs] > >[21877.951301] [<ffffffff800e3603>] pageout+0x143/0x2b0 > >[21877.951308] [<ffffffff800e514e>] shrink_page_list+0x26e/0x650 > >[21877.951314] [<ffffffff800e5803>] shrink_inactive_list+0x2d3/0x7c0 > >[21877.951320] [<ffffffff800e5d4b>] shrink_list+0x5b/0x110 > >[21877.951325] [<ffffffff800e5f71>] shrink_zone+0x171/0x250 > >[21877.951330] [<ffffffff800e60d3>] shrink_zones+0x83/0x120 > >[21877.951336] [<ffffffff800e620e>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x9e/0x380 > >[21877.951342] [<ffffffff800e6607>] try_to_free_pages+0x77/0xa0 > >[21877.951349] [<ffffffff800dbfa3>] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x2d3/0x5c0 > >[21877.951355] [<ffffffff800dc3e1>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x151/0x160 > >[21877.951362] [<ffffffff800d44b7>] __page_cache_alloc+0x27/0x50 > >[21877.951368] [<ffffffff800d68ca>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x9a/0xe0 > >[21877.951376] [<ffffffff8014bdfe>] block_write_begin+0xae/0x120 > >[21877.951396] [<ffffffffa009ac24>] xfs_vm_write_begin+0x34/0x50 [xfs] > > This is already in a filesystem. Why does ->writepage get > called a second time? Shouldn't this have a gfp_mask > without __GFP_FS set? No, we're allowed to use __GFP_FS with i_mutex held. > > >[21877.951482] [<ffffffff800d4b31>] generic_perform_write+0xc1/0x1f0 > >[21877.951489] [<ffffffff800d5d00>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x90/0x160 > >[21877.951512] [<ffffffffa00a4711>] xfs_write+0x521/0xb60 [xfs] > >[21877.951624] [<ffffffffa009fb80>] xfs_file_aio_write+0x70/0xa0 [xfs] > >[21877.951711] [<ffffffff80118c42>] do_sync_write+0x102/0x160 > >[21877.951718] [<ffffffff80118fc8>] vfs_write+0xd8/0x1c0 > >[21877.951723] [<ffffffff8011995b>] sys_write+0x5b/0xa0 > >[21877.951729] [<ffffffff8000c868>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > >[21877.951736] [<00007fc41b0fab10>] 0x7fc41b0fab10 > >[21877.951750] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000108743280 > >[21877.951755] IP: [<ffffffff80034832>] dequeue_task+0x72/0x110 > >[21877.951766] PGD 31c6f067 PUD 0 > >[21877.951770] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted > > > > > -- > All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html