Let's Cc linux-fsdevel, who will be more knowledgable. On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, angelo wrote: > Hi all, > > running xfstests, generic 308 on whatever 32bit arch is possible > to observe cpu to hang near 100% on unlink. > The test removes a sparse file of length 16tera where only the last > 4096 bytes block is mapped. > At line 265 of truncate.c there is a > if (index >= end) > break; > But if index is, as in this case, a 4294967295, it match -1 used as > eof. Hence the cpu loops 100% just after. That's odd. I've not checked your patch, because I think the problem would go beyond truncate, and the root cause lie elsewhere. My understanding is that the 32-bit #define MAX_LFS_FILESIZE (((loff_t)PAGE_CACHE_SIZE << (BITS_PER_LONG-1))-1) makes a page->index of -1 (or any "negative") impossible to reach. I don't know offhand the rules for mounting a filesystem populated with a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit kernel, what's to happen when a too-large file is encountered; but assume that's not the case here - you're just running xfstests/tests/generic/308. Is pwrite missing a check for offset beyond s_maxbytes? Or is this filesystem-dependent? Which filesystem? Hugh > > ------------------- > > On 32bit archs, with CONFIG_LBDAF=y, if truncating last page > of a 16tera file, "index" variable is set to 4294967295, and hence > matches with -1 used as EOF value. This result in an inifite loop > when unlink is executed on this file. > > Signed-off-by: Angelo Dureghello <angelo@xxxxxxxx> > --- > mm/truncate.c | 11 ++++++----- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c > index 76e35ad..3751034 100644 > --- a/mm/truncate.c > +++ b/mm/truncate.c > @@ -283,14 +283,15 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space > *mapping, > pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec); > pagevec_release(&pvec); > cond_resched(); > - index++; > + if (index < end) > + index++; > } > > if (partial_start) { > struct page *page = find_lock_page(mapping, start - 1); > if (page) { > unsigned int top = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE; > - if (start > end) { > + if (start > end && end != -1) { > /* Truncation within a single page */ > top = partial_end; > partial_end = 0; > @@ -322,7 +323,7 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space > *mapping, > * If the truncation happened within a single page no pages > * will be released, just zeroed, so we can bail out now. > */ > - if (start >= end) > + if (start >= end && end != -1) > return; > > index = start; > @@ -337,7 +338,7 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space > *mapping, > index = start; > continue; > } > - if (index == start && indices[0] >= end) { > + if (index == start && (indices[0] >= end && end != -1)) { > /* All gone out of hole to be punched, we're done */ > pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec); > pagevec_release(&pvec); > @@ -348,7 +349,7 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space > *mapping, > > /* We rely upon deletion not changing page->index */ > index = indices[i]; > - if (index >= end) { > + if (index >= end && (end != -1)) { > /* Restart punch to make sure all gone */ > index = start - 1; > break; > -- > 2.5.3 -- 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>