On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 03:52:14PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:30:54PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > When a dirty page is truncated from a file but reclaim gets to it before > > truncate_inode_pages(), we hit WARN_ON(delalloc) in > > xfs_vm_releasepage(). This is because reclaim tries to write the page, > > xfs_vm_writepage() just bails out (leaving page clean) and thus reclaim > > thinks it can continue and calls xfs_vm_releasepage() on page with dirty > > buffers. > > > > Fix the issue by redirtying the page in xfs_vm_writepage(). This makes > > reclaim stop reclaiming the page and also logically it keeps page in a > > more consistent state where page with dirty buffers has PageDirty set. > > Was there an easy way to reproduce this? I'm testing and reviewing this now > and it might help. This patch has been confirmed to fix the report generated by the DB workload I mentioned in another part of the thread. Hence I think it should be good to go. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
