On Tue 29-07-14 08:12:59, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:43:31PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > So there are three places that can fail after we allocate the block: > > 1) We race with truncate reducing i_size > > 2) dax_get_pfn() fails > > 3) vm_insert_mixed() fails > > > > I would guess that 2) can fail only if the HW has problems and leaking > > block in that case could be acceptable (please correct me if I'm wrong). > > 3) shouldn't fail because of ENOMEM because fault has already allocated all > > the page tables and EBUSY should be handled as well. So the only failure we > > have to care about is 1). And we could move ->get_block() call under > > i_mmap_mutex after the i_size check. Lock ordering should be fine because > > i_mmap_mutex ranks above page lock under which we do block mapping in > > standard ->page_mkwrite callbacks. The only (big) drawback is that > > i_mmap_mutex will now be held for much longer time and thus the contention > > would be much higher. But hopefully once we resolve our problems with > > mmap_sem and introduce mapping range lock we could scale reasonably. > > Lockdep barfs on holding i_mmap_mutex while calling ext4's ->get_block. > > Path 1: > > ext4_fallocate -> > ext4_punch_hole -> > ext4_inode_attach_jinode() -> ... -> > lock_map_acquire(&handle->h_lockdep_map); > truncate_pagecache_range() -> > unmap_mapping_range() -> > mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); This is strange. I don't see how ext4_inode_attach_jinode() can ever lead to lock_map_acquire(&handle->h_lockdep_map). Can you post a full trace for this? > Path 2: > do_dax_fault() -> > mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); > ext4_get_block() -> ... -> > lock_map_acquire(&handle->h_lockdep_map); This is obviously correct. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>