On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To properly handle fsync/msync in an efficient way DAX needs to track dirty > pages so it is able to flush them durably to media on demand. > > The tracking of dirty pages is done via the radix tree in struct > address_space. This radix tree is already used by the page writeback > infrastructure for tracking dirty pages associated with an open file, and > it already has support for exceptional (non struct page*) entries. We > build upon these features to add exceptional entries to the radix tree for > DAX dirty PMD or PTE pages at fault time. > > Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I'm hitting the following report with the ndctl dax test [1] on next-20151231. I bisected it to commit 3cb108f941de "dax-add-support-for-fsync-sync-v6". I'll take a closer look tomorrow, but in case someone can beat me to it, here's the back-trace: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:497! [..] CPU: 1 PID: 3001 Comm: umount Tainted: G O 4.4.0-rc7+ #2412 Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 task: ffff8800da2a5a00 ti: ffff880307794000 task.ti: ffff880307794000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81280171>] [<ffffffff81280171>] clear_inode+0x71/0x80 RSP: 0018:ffff880307797d50 EFLAGS: 00010002 RAX: ffff8800da2a5a00 RBX: ffff8800ca2e7328 RCX: ffff8800da2a5a28 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: ffff8800ca2e7530 RBP: ffff880307797d60 R08: ffffffff82900ae0 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff8800ca2e7548 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8800ca2e7530 R13: ffff8800ca2e7328 R14: ffff8800da2e88d0 R15: ffff8800da2e88d0 FS: 00007f2b22f4a880(0000) GS:ffff88031fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00005648abd933e8 CR3: 000000007f3fc000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Stack: ffff8800ca2e7328 ffff8800ca2e7000 ffff880307797d88 ffffffffa01c18af ffff8800ca2e7328 ffff8800ca2e74d0 ffffffffa01ec740 ffff880307797db0 ffffffff81281038 ffff8800ca2e74c0 ffff880307797e00 ffff8800ca2e7328 Call Trace: [<ffffffffa01c18af>] xfs_fs_evict_inode+0x5f/0x110 [xfs] [<ffffffff81281038>] evict+0xb8/0x180 [<ffffffff8128113b>] dispose_list+0x3b/0x50 [<ffffffff81282014>] evict_inodes+0x144/0x170 [<ffffffff8126447f>] generic_shutdown_super+0x3f/0xf0 [<ffffffff81264837>] kill_block_super+0x27/0x70 [<ffffffff81264a53>] deactivate_locked_super+0x43/0x70 [<ffffffff81264e9c>] deactivate_super+0x5c/0x60 [<ffffffff81285aff>] cleanup_mnt+0x3f/0x90 [<ffffffff81285b92>] __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20 [<ffffffff810c4f26>] task_work_run+0x76/0x90 [<ffffffff81003e3a>] syscall_return_slowpath+0x20a/0x280 [<ffffffff8192671a>] int_ret_from_sys_call+0x25/0x9f Code: 48 8d 93 30 03 00 00 48 39 c2 75 23 48 8b 83 d0 00 00 00 a8 20 74 1a a8 40 75 18 48 c7 8 3 d0 00 00 00 60 00 00 00 5b 41 5c 5d c3 <0f> 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 RIP [<ffffffff81280171>] clear_inode+0x71/0x80 RSP <ffff880307797d50> ---[ end trace 3b1d8898a94a4fc1 ]--- [1]: git://git@xxxxxxxxxx:pmem/ndctl.git pending make TESTS="test/dax.sh" check _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
