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SubjectRe: [vfs] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2339 at mm/truncate.c:758 pagecache_isize_extended+0xdd/0x120()
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:01:27PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> From de3426d6495f4b44b14c09b7c7202e9a86d864b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:58:42 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended()
>
> The WARN_ON checking whether i_mutex is held in
> pagecache_isize_extended() was wrong because some filesystems (e.g.
> XFS) use different locks for serialization of truncates / writes. So
> just remove the check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> ---
> mm/truncate.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
> index 261eaf6e5a19..c646084e5eec 100644
> --- a/mm/truncate.c
> +++ b/mm/truncate.c
> @@ -755,7 +755,6 @@ void pagecache_isize_extended(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, loff_t to)
> struct page *page;
> pgoff_t index;
>
> - WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex));
> WARN_ON(to > inode->i_size);
>
> if (from >= to || bsize == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)

Jan, Have you sent this patch upstream yet? I'm seeing it fire in
my testing in 3.18-rc1 kernels, so I was wondering what your plans
are for this...

Cheers,

Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com


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