On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 09:24 +0000, Holger Kiehl wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2009, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 19:16 +0000, Holger Kiehl wrote:
> >> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> (cc linux-nfs)
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, 3 May 2009 16:03:38 +0000 (GMT) Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello
> >>>>
> >>>> With plain kernel 2.6.29.2 I get the following OOPS (several of them) when
> >>>> writing lots of small files on the client system:
> >>>>
> >>>> May 3 18:48:34 obelix kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >>>> May 3 18:48:34 obelix kernel: kernel BUG at fs/nfs/write.c:252!
> >>>
> >>> I think this is a well-know bug, and fixes should be available in 2.6.29.3?
> >>>
> >> Thanks for this information. I just tried 2.6.29.3 and it still oopses.
> >> Are there any patches I can try?
> >
> > The attached backports against 2.6.29 are untested, but they are known
> > to compile at least. Could you give them a try?
> >
> Thanks. They do compile but when there is a mmap on the NFS drive the
> program gets a SIGBUS:
>
> unlink("/home/afdbench/afd2/fifodir/AFD_ACTIVE") = 0
> close(3) = 0
> open("/home/afdbench/afd2/fifodir/AFD_ACTIVE", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_CLOEXEC, 0600) = 3
> lseek(3, 78, SEEK_SET) = 78
> write(3, "\377"..., 1) = 1
> mmap(NULL, 78, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x7f8045cdb000
> --- SIGBUS (Bus error) @ 0 (0) ---
>
> This was with 2.6.29.3 plus the patches you send me.
>
> Holger
Oh, duh... You need this little patchlet too.
Sorry...
Cheers
Trond
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>From 2b2ec7554cf7ec5e4412f89a5af6abe8ce950700 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 14:02:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Fix the return value in nfs_page_mkwrite()
Commit c2ec175c39f62949438354f603f4aa170846aabb ("mm: page_mkwrite
change prototype to match fault") exposed a bug in the NFS
implementation of page_mkwrite. We should be returning 0 on success...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/file.c | 2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index 3523b89..5a97bcf 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -516,8 +516,6 @@ static int nfs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
goto out_unlock;
ret = nfs_updatepage(filp, page, 0, pagelen);
- if (ret == 0)
- ret = pagelen;
out_unlock:
unlock_page(page);
if (ret)
--
1.6.0.4
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