On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 01:49 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 08:30:18PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote: > > Today's linux-next starts to trigger this wondering if anyone has any clue. > > I've seen that occasionally too. I changed that BUG_ON to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE > to try to get a clue about it. Good to know it's not the THP patches > since they aren't in linux-next. > > I don't understand how it can happen. We have the page locked, and then we > do: > > if (PageWriteback(page)) { > if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE) > wait_on_page_writeback(page); > else > goto continue_unlock; > } > > VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageWriteback(page), page); > > Nobody should be able to put this page under writeback while we have it > locked ... right? The page can be redirtied by the code that's supposed > to be writing it back, but I don't see how anyone can make PageWriteback > true while we're holding the page lock. It happened again on today's linux-next: [ 7613.579890][T55770] page:00000000a4b35e02 refcount:3 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000457ceb87 index:0x3e pfn:0x1cef4e [ 7613.590594][T55770] aops:xfs_address_space_operations ino:805d85a dentry name:"doio.f1.55762" [ 7613.599192][T55770] flags: 0xbfffc0000000bf(locked|waiters|referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active) [ 7613.608596][T55770] raw: 00bfffc0000000bf ffffea0005027d48 ffff88810eaec030 ffff888231f3a6a8 [ 7613.617101][T55770] raw: 000000000000003e 0000000000000000 00000003ffffffff ffff888143724000 [ 7613.625590][T55770] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageWriteback(page)) [ 7613.632695][T55770] page->mem_cgroup:ffff888143724000