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Subject[ 036/171] tmpfs: change final i_blocks BUG to WARNING
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3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

commit 0f3c42f522dc1ad7e27affc0a4aa8c790bce0a66 upstream.

Under a particular load on one machine, I have hit shmem_evict_inode()'s
BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks), enough times to narrow it down to a particular
race between swapout and eviction.

It comes from the "if (freed > 0)" asymmetry in shmem_recalc_inode(),
and the lack of coherent locking between mapping's nrpages and shmem's
swapped count. There's a window in shmem_writepage(), between lowering
nrpages in shmem_delete_from_page_cache() and then raising swapped
count, when the freed count appears to be +1 when it should be 0, and
then the asymmetry stops it from being corrected with -1 before hitting
the BUG.

One answer is coherent locking: using tree_lock throughout, without
info->lock; reasonable, but the raw_spin_lock in percpu_counter_add() on
used_blocks makes that messier than expected. Another answer may be a
further effort to eliminate the weird shmem_recalc_inode() altogether,
but previous attempts at that failed.

So far undecided, but for now change the BUG_ON to WARN_ON: in usual
circumstances it remains a useful consistency check.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


---
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ static void shmem_evict_inode(struct ino
kfree(xattr->name);
kfree(xattr);
}
- BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks);
+ WARN_ON(inode->i_blocks);
shmem_free_inode(inode->i_sb);
end_writeback(inode);
}



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